The Cut-throat Celts
The ghastly truth about the wild warrior race who weren't afraid to fight the Romans. The book includes stories about suffering saints, gruesome games for Celtic kids, and the dreadful Druids with their strange sacrifices and terrible trials.
The ghastly truth about the wild warrior race who weren't afraid to fight the Romans. The book includes stories about suffering saints, gruesome games for Celtic kids, and the dreadful Druids with their strange sacrifices and terrible trials.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780590139724 (059013972X)
ASIN: 059013972X
Publish date: April 18th 1997
Publisher: Scholastic Hippo
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Education,
Sequential Art,
Comics
Series: Horrible Histories
Thanks to BrokenTune for giving me this book! A deliberately silly book for kids about everybody's favourite Iron Age culture (everybody who likes washing with soap, anyway - you're welcome). Of course it's superficial in adult terms but it does go a little into how much of what is "known" was wri...
More TBR busting: This was fun. What's even better is that the fun does not get in the way of imparting some very wise words to its young readership about reading history books and historical sources. The Celts had an oral tradition, and much of what is known about the Celts from early sources w...
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