Horrible histories gruesome

Buy Horrible Histories: Awesome Annual 2007 By Terry Deary for R509.00

Buy Horrible Histories: USA (Paperback, 3rd edition) for R165.00

Buy Horrible Histories Handbooks: Pirates By Terry Deary for R339.00

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Step back to an awesomely ancient time with the Awesome Egyptians. Discover which king had the worst blackheads, why some kings had to wear false beards and why the peasants were revolting. History with the nasty bits left in! 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary. Features Summary Readers can discover all the foul facts about the AWESOME EGYPTIANS, including why some pharaohs wore false beards, which king had the most blackheads and revolting recipes for 3000 year old sweets... Author Terry Deary (Author), Peter Hepplewhite (Author), Martin Brown (Illustrator) Publisher Scholastic Release date 20170119 Pages 144 ISBN 1-4071-7865-2 ISBN 13 978-1-4071-7865-3

Author: Beth Skwarecki Publisher: Adams Media (2016) ISBN-10: 1440596271 ISBN-13: 9781440596278 Condition: As new Binding: Softcover Pages: 256 Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.9 x 1.6 cm +++ by Beth Skwarecki +++ From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics! Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. Outbreak! catalogs fifty of those incidents in gruesome detail, including: The Sweating Sickness that killed 15,000, including Henry VIII's older brother Syphilis, the "French Disease," which spread throughout Europe in the late fifteenth century The romantic disease: tuberculosis, featured in La Boheme, La Traviata, and Les Miserables The worldwide outbreak of influenza in 1918, which killed 3 percent of the population The mysterious appearance of HIV in the 1980s The devastating spread of Ebola in West Africa in 2014 From ancient outbreaks of smallpox and plague to modern epidemics such as SARS and Ebola, the stories capture the mystery and devastation brought on by these diseases. It's a sickeningly fun read that confirms the true definition of going viral.