Time Travel Guides: The Shang Dynasty and Yin

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Step back in time to discover life during the Shang Dynasty with this handy time travel guidebook

Travel back in time to the age of the Shang dynasty in China and find out all about Shang life and culture. Get ready to visit a bronze-making workshop, eat elephant at a banquet, play panpipes and shop for precious jade and silk at a Shang market.

Like modern travel guides, the books in this series highlight must-see features and explain local culture. Each highlighted destination contains an explanation of what took part in these areas, as well as a look at important artefacts found there providing a bigger picture of life in the past. Typical travel guide notes include, 'best time to visit', 'what to eat' and 'where to stay'. Perfect for the KS2 history curriculum, and for readers aged 7 and up.

Titles in the series:

The Ancient Egyptians and Thebes

The Ancient Greeks and Athens

The Maya and Chichen Itza

Roman Britain and Londinium

The Shang Dynasty and Yinxu

The Stone Age and Skara Brae

The Victorians and London

Viking Britain and Jorvik

Author Bio

Tim Cooke is a graduate of Oxford University. He has worked in children's publishing for over 20 years, and has written or contributed to dozens of books on a wide range of subjects. Among his publications as writer or editor are numerous sets about military history, particularly the American Revolution, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Vietnam War. He has also written extensively about general history, both ancient and modern.