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Avoid Being Leonardo Da Vinci! by Jacqueline Morley
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: The Danger Zone
Leonardo da Vinci was a great inventor, military engineer, scientist, botanist and mathematician, as well as an accomplished painter and sculptor. In this Danger Zone title, readers will learn all about the life of the man who painted the most famous picture in the world, who designed the first-ever fly ...Show more
Avoid Being Sir Isaac Newton! by Ian Graham
$22.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: The Danger Zone
Sir Isaac Newton was one of the most famous scientists of his age, in fact, many people think he was the greatest scientist of any age. He was a remarkable man and the laws of nature that he discovered caused a revolution in science and technology, but his obsessions, quarrels, loneliness and secrets ma ...Show more
Avoid Being a Tudor Actor in Shakespeare's Theatre! by Jacqueline Morley
$22.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: The Danger Zone
With the plague still hanging loose in the air of 16th century London, the populace could do with cheering up. The man for the job is a new playwright on the scene, William Shakespeare. You start work at his theatre, but soon realise it won't be easy. It'll take an excellent memory, a penchant for weari ...Show more
Avoid Being a Worker on the Taj Mahal! by Fiona MacDonald
$20.00 NZD
Category: History and Pre-History | Series: The Danger Zone
Discover what it was like to build the Taj Mahal in this new Danger Zone title. Become an ordinary, hard-working, poorly-paid labourer, living in north India around 1632 as you decide to embark on a journey to Agra to work on a vast new building project. This book explores the past and present of the Ta ...Show more
Avoid Being on the First Flying Machine! by Ian Graham
$22.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: The Danger Zone
Man has always dreamed of being able to fly like the birds, but by the end of the nineteenth century this dream was becoming a reality due to inventors such as Orville and Wilbur Wright. This title in the popular Danger Zone series features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate tec ...Show more
Avoid Meeting Typhoid Mary! by Jacqueline Morley
$22.00 NZD
Category: History and Pre-History | Series: The Danger Zone
This title in the very popular Danger Zone series explores the life and times of Typhoid Mary. Read about her early beginnings as a young girl travelling alone from Ireland to New York, her time on an island in a hospital being used to test all kinds of drugs, and how she passed typhoid fever from one p ...Show more
Avoid Working On the Statue Of Liberty! (The Danger Zone) by John Malam Illustrated by David Antram
$21.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: The Danger Zone
The year is 1871 and you are about to be involved in the building of America's most famous landmark - the Statue of Liberty! Find out the hard way what was it like to help design, commission and construct what was the world's tallest monument, from Liberty's French conception to its completion in Americ ...Show more
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
$18.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: The Danger Zone
Mike Mulligan has a steam shovel, a beautiful read steam shovel. Her name was Mary Anne. Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne dug the great canals, railways and highways. They dug the foundations of skyscrapers and the landing fields for aeroplanes. But when the gasoline, diesel and electric shovels arrive, it l ...Show more
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