The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World: 40,000 B.C. to Present Day [Hardcover]

Charlotte (Editor) Evans (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Kingfisher Books; First American Edition edition (1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1856978621
• ISBN-13: 978-1856978620
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.5 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Start your history studies here, December 6, 1999

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Alan (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World: 40,000 B.C. to Present Day (Hardcover)

Learning Family Book Review

If you could only have one history book in your home library, this should be it. Written like an encyclopedia of historical events, the Illustrated History is an incredibly easy to access work, covering almost any historical even you could imagine. The illustrations and photos are excellent. The text is brief, but enough to get a basic understanding. I've begun using this one as a first source for history subjects, to get myself oriented, then continue into more specialised books as needed. The chronolgy is listed in the outside column of the pages, which makes thumbing through it quite easy. Though it isn't a history course in one volume, all of the more major events in history have several pages devoted to them covering archaeological data, social background, art and more. An outstanding book.

89 of 99 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book! Shame on Kingfisher for ending print run., July 9, 2000

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Linda S. Taylor "TeacherLady" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World: 40,000 B.C. to Present Day (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful book, and I am so disgusted with Kingfisher for letting it go out-of-print, and for replacing it with the much lesser "red book." We homeschool and find this book invaluable! We learned of this book by reading a book I highly recommend: "The Well-Trained Mind, A Guide to a Classical Education at Home" by Wise. We feel badly for all of the parents still searching for this book. Kingfisher told me that they had about 200 in their warehouse, sold me two of them, and told me that other homeschooling parents could contact them to buy copies. Now that source suddenly dried up, and I wonder why. I have stopped buying all Kingfisher books until they reprint this one, and close out the 'red book.'

48 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Homeschooler's Best Friend (besides his mother), March 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World: 40,000 B.C. to Present Day (Hardcover)

This is *the* best history book to have for all your child's years from first grade through high school. He's not going to grow out of this book. A specific event or narrow time period is presented on each two-page spread in the book along with many, many helpful colorful drawings. Along each left and right side edge all through the book, however, is an extremely helpful world-wide timeline about everything else going on during the time of these two pages.

This is a very informative and riveting "children's" history book. We try and keep it by our reading chair so that with every book we read, the kids and I can find the same time period in this history book. I say "try" to keep it by our reading chair because my kids are always flopping down on the family room floor with it or taking it to the kitchen table to read through it on their own time. It's really that good of a book. It's out of print for now, but make sure to find a used copy so you can have this gem for your kids.