The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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Bettany Hughes
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Bettany Hughes
About this listen
'A wondrous wonderful achievement' STEPHEN FRY
The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. They were also brilliant adventures of the mind, test cases for the reaches of human imagination.
Now only the great pyramid remains fully standing, yet the scale and majesty of these seven wonders still enthral us today. In a thrilling, colourful narrative enriched with the latest archaeological discoveries, bestselling historian Bettany Hughes walks through the landscapes of both ancient and modern time. This is a journey whose purpose is to ask why we wonder, why we create, why we choose to remember the wonder of others. She explores traces of the Wonders themselves, and the traces they have left in history. A magisterial work of historical storytelling, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World reinforces the exciting and nourishing notion that humans can make the impossible happen.
'Fantastic...a joy from the outset' PETER FRANKOPAN
'Fascinating...all told with Bettany's natural sense of wonder and adventure' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
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- Robbie
- 18-09-2024
Loved It.
I want Bettany’s job. I just need to be a brilliant historian and storyteller. The detail and insight is exceptional and her stories about her adventures in researching the book are compelling.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-10-2024
Subject knowledge and narration
Excellent subject knowledge on all the wonders and very well narrated so as not to get lost with all the information provided
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- Anonymous User
- 26-02-2024
Absolutely loved every minute
I absolutely loved this book, I enjoyed it as much as Istanbul and can’t wait you get my hands on another one by Bettany Hughes
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- S.Attenborough
- 06-04-2024
A travelogue more than history
Ms Hughes is overblown in dialogue. Where 2 words would suffice 50 are used.
Factually incorrect in places ie: ‘ The sea peoples were Phoenician Pirates’. No one knows exactly who they were and more likely a mixture of peoples.
More of an ancient travelogue a la Herodotus than history,
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