This series immerses readers in bygone eras with intimately detailed and deeply human narratives. It brings historical periods and diverse cultures to life, allowing you to experience the daily realities of people from the past. Through vivid accounts, you'll connect with their customs, challenges, and triumphs. It's an evocative journey that makes history feel remarkably present and personal.
Vikings, AD 800-1100 (What Life Was Like)
Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.
For those who are fascinated by the lives of the people throughout history, Time-Life's What Life Was Like is the first book series to offer an intimately detailed, deeply human prospective on global history that lets you experience what life was really like and connect with people of the past.
Renaissance Italy, AD 1400-1550
Explores the civilization of Renaissance Italy, including the wars between city-states, Vatican intrigues, architecture, literature, art, fashion, and courtship rituals
Provides an overview of the Middle ages from 800 to 1500 AD
Offers a historical look at Britain's occupation of India from 1600 to 1905.
The dazzling ancient Egyptian civilization, which was born by the river Nile and flourished for more than 3,000 years, captures our imagination as no other culture before or since. Their magnificent pyramids, colossal temples, and brooding Sphinx never fail to awe and astound us. But even more amazing are other artifacts, ones that the Egyptians never meant for us to see - rolls of papyrus, pottery chips, and tombs - that tell us about the people who built the grand structures that grace the Egyptian landscape.