The Incredible Journey to the Beginning of Time [antikvár]

¦ ! H j, 111'p-i.it A a I. THE INCREDIBLE Journey to the BEGINNING OF TIM T ^HIS BOOK is like a time macliine. Starting from now, you are about to travel back througli time. Occasionally, the clock stops and you can take a look at what the world was like at a particular date in the past. To begin with, your journey takes you back hundreds of years—back through the Victorian times, the Middle Ages, the time of the Romans, to the dawn of civilization. Later on, you start to make hops of thousands of years—back through the early years of humans themselves—then giant leaps of millions of years to the Age of Dinosaurs, to a time when there was no life on land at all to the first days of the Earth itself Your time machine has four windows. Through them, you can watch the ages rolling back in four very different places around the world: New York City, south-western France, the Nile Valley in Egypt and northern China. For each, the viewpoint is always the same but, as you will see, the scenery changes dramatically from one date to the next