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HUGHES BETTANY THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT...

The Sunday Times Bestseller    'A wondrous wonderful achievement' STEPHEN FRY    Longlisted for
The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025   The Seven Wonders of the World were
staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. They were also brilliant adventures of the
mind  test cases for the reaches of human imagination.   Now only the great pyramid remains
fully standing  yet the scale and majesty of these seven wonders still enthral us today. In a
thrilling  colourful narrative enriched with the latest archaeological discoveries  bestselling
historian Bettany Hughes walks through the landscapes of both ancient and modern time. This is
a journey whose purpose is to ask why we wonder  why we create  why we choose to remember the
wonder of others. She explores traces of the Wonders themselves  and the traces they have left
in history. A magisterial work of historical storytelling  The Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World reinforces the exciting and nourishing notion that humans can make the impossible happen.
'Fantastic...a joy from the outset' PETER FRANKOPAN    'Fascinating...all told with Bettany's
natural sense of wonder and adventure' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE

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