City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction

9 best books like City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction (David Macaulay): The Eagle of the Ninth, Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, The Shadow of Saganami, Cleopatra, Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?, Leif the Lucky, The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals, Pompeii . . . Buried Alive!, とんがり帽子のアトリエ 2 特装版

The Eagle of the Ninth
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0192750453
Classic historical fiction

At the age of eight, I read Eagle of the Ninth, my first encounter with historical fiction. I became hooked. Since then, I have been read Nigel Tranter, John Prebble, Conn Igguden, Simon Scarrow, Ruth Downie, and many others.

Forty-four years later, re-reading...
Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky
AuthorKathi Appelt
ISBN1948959100
Back in print! Now available as a beautiful hardcover from Purple House Press.It's 4:30 in the morning, and the "book woman" and her horse are already on their way. Hers is an important job, for the folks along her treacherous route are eager for the tattered books and magazines she carries in her saddlebags.During...
The Shadow of Saganami
AuthorDavid Weber
ISBN0743488520
The Star Kingdom has a new generation of officers! And this elite group hand-picked and trained by Honor Harrington herself is going to be needed immediately, as their first assignment turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected. What was supposed to be a quiet outpost, far from the blazing conflict...
AuthorDiane Stanley
ISBN0688154808
Cleopatra is a partial biography picture book written and illustrated by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema. The book begins with Cleopatra at age 18, when she was crowned Queen of Egypt in 51 BC. The book covers her struggle for power against the advisors of her young brother, the King. Cleopatra allied...
AuthorRoberta Edwards
ISBN0448443015
Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters.  Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to.  Only thirteen paintings are known to be his; as for the illustrated...
AuthorIngri d'Aulaire
ISBN0964380307
Okay, Leif the Lucky might've topped Benjamin Franklin. The contest was a close one. It's the d'Aulaires' world, I'm just living in it.

We haven't yet read every work by the d'Aulaires. But their works on Leif Erikson and the Norse Gods show they have a passion for Norwegian mythology, history,...
AuthorJoel Sartore
ISBN1426217773
This lush book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals--especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion,...
AuthorEdith Kunhardt
ISBN0394888669
Illus. in full color. "The drama of natural disasters provides prime material to entice young independent readers. In this volume, the account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius describes village life 2,000 years ago, the eruption itself and its aftermath, and the excitement when the buried town is...
とんがり帽子のアトリエ 2 特装版
AuthorKamome Shirahama
ISBN4065102030
I am reading all these depressing(ly realistic) books about climate change and the end of the world, so it is refreshing to once again experience this effervescently hopeful and positive vision of a world inhabited by a girl, Coco, who wants to be a witch. Her idea is that magic exists not to demonize and...
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