Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Rome by James Baikie (Yesterday's Classics) Workman Publishing A Matter of Fact

A Matter of Fact

and I Can Read with My Eyes Shut

this is a study in place and personality

000 plus copies sold to date) won the Caldecott Medal and was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Book

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Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Rome by James Baikie (Yesterday's Classics) Workman Publishing A Matter of FactAn introduction to the ancient city of Rome, its early history, and how its geographical position helped it become the seat of the Roman Empire. Traveling to the city in A. D. 71 we witness the triumph of Vespasian and Titus as well as the games in the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus. And finally we learn that the secret to Rome's greatness is discipline, inculcated in her citizens by military training and held up as an ideal in both home and civic