Jacqueline Morley

Are you ready to leave behind your home in England and risk your life in the name of exploration? You will have to face starvation and angry natives if you are going to set up a colony. Read some top tips from the experts.

The ancient Egyptian pyramids are one of the wonders of the world but what was it like to work on one? Experience for yourself the lives of laborers, scribes, artists, and embalmers as they prepare the Pharaohs final resting place.

Explores what life is like living in a pharaoh's palace. Discusses the royal household, clothes, work, money, travel, and health in becoming a princess who will supervise activities while operating the palace.

Depicts what daily life might have been like in ancient Egypt.

Text and illustrations depict the construction and uses of the pyramids in ancient Egypt and explore how people lived and worked in that time.

Illustrations and text describe life in the villa of a wealthy family situated in the countryside outside Rome during the first century A.D.

A uge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Aronnax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Aronnax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Aronnax finds there's no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo's captive -...

Describes life for pioneers making the trek across North America to the West by wagon train.

"You have applied for the job of an Egyptian Princess in Ancient Egypt. There's lots to learn if you are going to live a life of power and luxury. An interview at the end of the book will reveal if you have what it takes to be an Egyptian Princess"--Back cover.

Tells the story of how Europeans got to know the size and shape of the northern part of the New World, an area discovered over a period of four centuries.