By Matthew Reinhart
The creators of the recent York occasions best-selling Encyclopedia Prehistorica sequence provide a mythic examine the mysteries of the prior with a whole pantheon of exceptional pop-ups.
For all of recorded background, people have sought to appreciate Earth’s mysteries within the realm of the divine — and aspired to behavior themselves as heroes. merely gods, after all, may possibly push the solar around the sky,forge whole continents, and impel mountains to the touch the clouds. during this beautiful quantity, the incomparable crew of Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda take us to Ra-Atum’s land in historic Egypt; above the Grecian clouds to Zeus’s Mount Olympus; as much as Norse god Odin’s frozen north; to the a ways East, the place the Jade Emperor sits within the heavens; into the wilds of Oceania, the place Pele’s volcanic rage simmers lower than the earth; and to many extra lands and instances, all wealthy with sacred myths and legends.
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