Diary of a Time Traveller

　　跟著時空旅人，來場親臨世界歷史經典場景的知性之旅！在穿越不同時空背景的同時，你可以和莎士比亞、達文西、愛因斯坦等偉人面對面並見證偉大文學、發明和發現的歷史性時刻，也可親臨第一次舉辦奧林匹克運動會的現場，亦或回到人類最初剛發現"火"的舊石器時代。（文／博客來編譯）　　

　　Meet some of history's most illustrious and interesting characters in this book that visits key moments of the past from around the world. When young Augustus falls asleep in history class, Professor Tempo decides to teach him a lesson and show him that history isn't boring at all!

　　She hands him a magic diary, all he needs to do is write the time and place to travel there. Together they head out on a whistle-stop tour of history through the ages to meet some of the world's finest explorers, inventors, leaders, writers, composers and painters, including Albert Einstein, Mozart, Louis XIV, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus Genghis Khan, Emperor Titus in Rome, athletes at the very first Olympic Games, Tutankhamen in Egypt and even Palaeolithic man as he discovers fire.

　　Each double page spread introduces a different time and place, with an introductory text from Augustus which explains the sights and sounds, and accompanying captions from the Professor which provide key facts. A character index at the rear gives a short biography of all the historical characters covered, and a timeline helps to contextualise the different time periods covered.

作者簡介

　　Author DAVID LONG is an experienced writer specialising in history, and has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, the Sunday Mirror, the London Evening Standard and the Sunday People, and has won the Independent Publisher's Book Award for one of his ghost-written titles. He lives and works in East Anglia.

　　 Young London-based illustrator NICHOLAS STEVENSON's won silver at the 2013 Serco Prize. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Anorak Magazine and Urban Outfitters.