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|author=Christopher Dell
|title=Mythology: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined Worlds
|rating=4.5
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=What does a rainbow mean to you? How would you explain the creation of the world if you had no science as such, or the changing of the seasons? What other kinds of natures – chaotic trickery, evil personae or even the characteristics of goats – people your world? And why is it that the answers man and woman have collectively formed to such questions have been so similar across the oceans and across the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at the mythologies that formed those answers, and locks on to a multitude of subjects – blood, music, godly activity – to show us what has followed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Caroline Moorehead
|summary=We tend to associate the golden age of global navigation and exploration with the Elizabethan age and such luminaries as Drake, Raleigh and Hawkins. This book does us all a service in reminding us of the original pioneers, whom they overshadowed and who seem less well-remembered these days.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780221029</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Marriott
|title=A History of the World in Numbers
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=Make no mistake, this book does what it says on the cover. That also goes to say that it is ''not'' A History of the World ''of'' Numbers, or A History of the World's Numbers and what they might mean, as other books provide. This is a primer of the world's history, right from the earliest days of civilisation up to the close of World War Two, in handy bite-sized chunks, where the headline data can be given using a number.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432175</amazonuk>
}}