The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Rome
A Handbook for Time Travelers
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
From the publishing house that brought you the Who Was? books comes the next big series to make history approachable, engaging, and funny!
The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Rome contains information vital to the sensible time traveler:
• Where can I find a decent hotel room in ancient Rome for under five sesterces a day? Is horse parking included?
• What do I do if I’m attacked by barbarians?
• What are my legal options if I’m fed to the lions at the Colosseum?
All this is answered and more. There is handy advice on finding the best picnicking spots to watch Julius Caesar’s assassination at the Roman Forum in 44 BC, as well as helpful real estate tips to profit from the great Roman fire of AD 64. There are even useful recommendations on which famous historical figures to meet for lunch, and a few nifty pointers on how to avoid being poisoned, beheaded, or torn apart by an angry mob.
If you had a time travel machine and could take a vacation anywhere in history, this is the only guidebook you would need!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the year 2163, the past is the new luxury vacation destination: with this travel guide in hand, readers are invited to visit ancient Rome by hopping in their Time Corp Time Machine Sedan. Stokes (the Addison Cooke series) keeps up the tongue-in-cheek conceit throughout, offering readers advice about the perils of the era ("Time Corp's legal department requires us to mention that if the fires don't kill you, the floods probably will") and entertainment options ("Romans also enjoy a great variety of sports and spectacles, most of which involve witnessing violent death, all for a very attractive price"), as well as information on various rulers and conflicts. Sossella brings a droll sense of humor to his engravinglike cartoons, and sidebars offering "helpful hints," dispatches from Time Corp's unsavory corporate overlord, and faux Yelp-style reviews ("I only got to eat one family," complains a lion in a one-star review of the Flavian Amphitheater) round out a very funny tour of Rome's bloody and tumultuous past. Also available: The Thrifty Guide to the American Revolution. Ages 8 12. Author's)
