David Antram
82) You wouldn't want to sail on an Irish famine ship!: a trip across the Atlantic you'd rather not make
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A look at Irish immigrants who came to the United States to escape the potato famine.
84) You wouldn't want to be a 19th-century coal miner in England!: a dangerous job you'd rather not have
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94) You wouldn't want to be an 18th-century British convict!: a trip to Australia you'd rather not take
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A humorous account of how a British thief would have been punished in the eighteenth century by being sent to Australia in 1785.
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"How would you know what time it was without clocks? How would you buy things without money? It's hard to imagine what life would be like today without the inventions and discoveries that we take for granted, from the humble bar of soap to the fantastic complexity of the Internet. Combining history with science, this series explains how these products of human ingenuity have transformed our world" --
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A skilled mechanic in 1930s Germany is offered a job on the most magnificent airship ever built, the Hindenberg. But dangers from flammable gas, storms and lightning are there. Follows the airship as it bursts into flame and investigates the cause of the disaster.
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"For thousands of years, mankind has been fascinated with the science of measuring time. Even our earliest ancestors needed to know how long the daylight would last, and how long it would be before the buffalo returned. This book tells the story of our obsession with time, and our increasingly accurate ways of measuring it."--Back cover.