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He is ‘ the richest man in history‘! It seems he travelled across the Sahara by camel caravan. Then again, we meet Mansa Mūsā, in West Africa. It seems his name is remembered in 21st century ‘wireless technology’. For example, we meet Viking King Harald Bluetooth, who united Denmark’s tribes. These include Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, and Elizabeth I. However, here the writer turns his attention to notable historical figures. (Welbeck Publishing) We’ve enjoyed a number of interviews from Andy Seed, including I nterview with a Tiger & Other Clawed Beasts Too. Written by Andy Seed, illustrated by Gareth Conway Interview with Cleopatra & Other Famous Rulers We recommend Interview with Cleopatra & Other Famous Rulers for reading at home, and school.
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The style, with interviews, the precarious nature of time travelling into the company of Genghis Khan or Harald Bluetooth, for example, and then Gareth Conway’s expressive comic style illustrations make this book so accessible and such fun!īookwagon loves this series of books, and is delighted that it has moved into encounters with historical figures. These include Elizabeth I, Saladin and Boudica too! Thereafter, we read what happened to the Aztec ruler, as we do with each of the interviewed subjects. However, subsequently, Cortés has told him he ‘ cannot leave this house‘ so that he’s prisoner in his own palace! It seems he’s welcomed the Spaniard Hernán Cortés. However Montezuma’s fortunes are not looking so promising. Then again, his armies ‘ went west and crushed- Afghanistan, Persia, Azerbaijan, Southern Russia, Georgia and not into Europe: Bulgaria and Hungary’. Then again, we meet other ground breaking leaders, like Genghis Khan, who explains how uniting the clans of Mongolia enabled him to defeat China. Both are subjects of time travelling writer Andy Seed in Interview with Cleopatra & Other Famous Rulers. Did you know that Cleopatra spoke Greek, as did the other Egyptian rulers? It seems Alexander the Great brought that language to the country when he invaded in 332BC.