Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants

Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants

2007 • 95 pages

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Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - and also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own.

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A short collection of excerpts from The Histories of Herodotus. A mixture of fantastic stories (such as the titular snakes and ants) and history - in this case Cambyses, son of Cyrus, and the end of his reign.
This reads well as an excerpt.

January 10, 2015

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