He was dead, his mouth open in a scream of unimaginable terror... Blackbeard is the most feared pirate of all. But when he comes face-to-face with evil mummies,

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in Engli

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.