Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome, Paul Chrystal

Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome, Paul ChrystalNew Hardback Both humorous and shocking, Miracula is filled with astonishing facts and stories drawn from ancient Greece and Rome that have rarely been retold in English. It explores 'the incredible' as presented by little known classical writers like Callimachus and Phlegon of Tralles. However, it offers much more: familiar authors such as Herodotus and Cicero often couldn't resist relating sensational, tabloid worthy tales. The book also tackles

quarter bound in blue leather with raised spine bands and gilt titles

Alastair Arnott seeks to redress the balance of this largely unrecorded aspect of maritime history

who staffed them

The book also tells the story of Horatio Nelson

combined with the kinship and inspiration he found in rave culture

where they were joined by several more

Pirates have long captured the imagination with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers

and a determination to survive won't be enough this time

Anne was in fact a shrewd and ruthless politician in her own right

so many years after the war

And then Goïmron comes across an extraordinary book

home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny