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DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
TERRORS AND TORMENTS, DISEASES AND DEATHS |
| By: |
Terry Deary, Mitch Benn |
| Format: |
Downloadable audio file |
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
140914898X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781409148982 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
7 November, 2013 |
| Description: |
From the internationally bestselling author of Horrible Histories, the first volume in new series for adults. Unabridged edition, read by Mitch Benn. |
| Synopsis: |
DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is the first in a new adult series by Terry Deary, the author of the hugely bestselling Horrible Histories, popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and sharp wit, and among adults for engaging children (and themselves) with history. The Romans have long been held up as one of the first 'civilised' societies, and yet in fact they were capable of immense cruelty. Not only that, but they made the killing of humans into a sport. The spoiled emperors were the perpetrators (and sometimes the victims) of some imaginative murders. DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE will include some of the violent ways to visit the Elysian Fields (i.e. death) including: animal attack in the Coliseum; being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock - 370 deserters in 214 AD alone (or if the emperor didn't like your poetry); by volcanic eruption from Vesuvius; by kicking (Nero's fatal quarrel with the Empress Poppea); from poison mushrooms (Claudius); by great fires; torturous tarring; flogging to death; boiling lead (the invention of 'kind' Emperor Constantine); or being skinned alive by invading barbarians.DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE looks at the back-story leading up to the victims' deaths, and in doing so gives the general reader a concise history of a frequently misunderstood era. Read by Mitch Benn. Mitch Benn found fame as the singer of spectacularly angry, clever and funny songs on the Now Show before writing (and narrating) his debut novel TERRA. He used to be a big, angry, clever and funny man. Now he is just angry, clever and funny. He tours regularly and is in pretty much permanent residence with his band at the Phoenix theatre in Bloomsbury. He is married and has a young daughter. He also has over 20,000 followers on Twitter. (p) 2013 Orion Publishing Group |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
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Non-returnable |
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