1001 HIDEOUS HISTORY FACTS: DELVE INTO THE DEPTHS OF OUR DESPICABLE PAST

Book ID/图书代码： 00657012B56442

English Summary/英文概要： A cartoon narrator and his new friends make this a voyage of discovery through time much more interesting and fun than the average reference book. The fascinating, gruesome and wacky facts are popular on radio, TV and in book format. It appeals to parents as it encourages children to widen their reading. Children will enjoy telling friends and family about their reading.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书讲述了一名卡通故事讲述者和他的新朋友们共同踏上了一场穿越时空的探索之旅，因而这是一部比普通参考书更为有趣的书籍。书中的那些时而惊心动魄，时而恐怖诡异的事实不论是出现在广播，电视还是书籍中都深受欢迎与喜爱。此外本书还深得家长们的青睐，因为它能够帮助孩子们拓宽其阅读知识面，并且孩子们也将热于向亲朋好友们讲述他们在书中看到的这些精彩故事。(DC)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 艾利克斯•伍尔夫，1964年生于伦敦北部。少年时期曾担任过乐队鼓手，20几岁时曾骑着摩托车游遍美国与欧洲，并担任过诸如会计，福利院助理，印刷采购，他甚至在饭店内当过洗碗工以及上门推销员。自1991年起，他成为了一名图书编辑，2001年他开始从事创作。他共执笔创作了约40余部图书，并涉及各类题材，从蜘蛛到纳粹等。迄今为止，艾利克斯最长的一部作品是一部约有300余页的《世界简史》。其处女作小说《时空：时间以外的时间》为一部科幻三部曲小说中的第一部，已于2011年问世。

Alex Woolf was born in North London in 1964. During his teens, he played drums in a band, and in his 20s, he rode his motorbike, travelled in America and Europe and worked variously as an accountant, a warehouse assistant, a print buyer, a dishwasher in a roach-infested restaurant and a door-to-door salesman. Since 1991, he has been a book editor, and in 2001, he began to write. He has penned more than 40 books on a range of topics, from spiders to Nazis, and quite a few things in between. His longest book to date was a 300-page ’Short History of the World’. His debut novel, ’Chronosphere: Time Out of Time’, the first part of a science fiction trilogy set in the future, is publishing in 2011.

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