Hachette India

The Time Travel Handbook

James Wyllie

Johnny Acton

David Goldblatt

Not many of us can claim to have dipped our handkerchiefs in Charles I's blood after his execution, or to have watched Vesuvius erupt, but that's about to change...

Wyllie, Acton and Goldblatt's Time Travel Handbook offers eighteen exceptional trips to the past, transporting you back to the greatest spectacles in history. We offer the chance to join Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and to march on Versailles with the revolutionary women of Paris. You can sail with Captain Cook to Tahiti and Australia, and spend time at Xanadu with Marco Polo and Kubla Khan. Or, closer to the present, you might accompany Charlie Parker at the birth of bebop or The Beatles in Hamburg, and take part in the VE Day celebrations in London or the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

The notable authors and time travel agents, Wyllie, Acton and Goldblatt are your guide to these and other unmissable events, charting the action as it will unfold, and advising on local customs, and what to wear, eat and drink, for the most authentic of experiences.

Forget museums, forget history books - the only way to do history is to live it.

Classification : History
Pub Date : JAN 5, 2016
Imprint : Profile Books
Page Extent : 336
Binding : HB
ISBN : 9781781254042
Price : INR 955

James Wyllie

James Wyllie is an author and award-winning screenwriter. His lastest book is The Codebreakers - the story of the secret intelligence team that changed the course of the First World War. Johnny 'Lord' Acton has written books on everything from food (Preserved with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall) to the history of balloons (The Man Who Touched the Sky) and co-authored with David Goldblatt How to Watch the Olympics. David Goldblatt is the author of the definitive doorstopping football histories The Ball is Round and The Game of Our Lives. He writes and broadcasts on the politics of sport for the Guardian and BBC radio.

Johnny Acton

Nick Sandler is Creative Chef for Pret A Manger responsible for countless lunches on a daily basis. He is also a freelance development chef creating new dishes for delis and supermarkets. Johnny Acton is a writer/journalist who has authored books on topics ranging from the role of high altitude ballooning in the Space Race to the history of money. Nick and Johnny have written five books for Kyle Cathie - Soup Mushroom Preserved Duchy Originals Cookbook and The Branded Cookbook.

David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt is the author of the World Football Yearbook and The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football. He writes the Sporting Life column in Prospect teaches sociology of sport at Bristol University and broadcasts regularly on the politics of sport for BBC Radio.

Johnny Acton is a writer who specialises in digging up obscure nuggets of information and making complex subjects accessible. He has written books on everything from pickling food (Preserved with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall) to the history of balloons (The Man Who Touched the Sky).