The first accessible, authoritative and complete account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer the Holy Land.
100 Facts Kings & Queens takes an in-depth look at British kings and queens across the ages for children aged 7+. Discover why Boudicca was known as the warrior queen, and how she was defeated by the Romans.
The true story of Florence Nightingale's life, focusing on her real legacy: how she put a sanitary disaster in her wartime hospital to good use in reducing the very high mortality from epidemic disease in the civilian population at home.