David Bellingham Boeken

Throughout human history people have told stories to explain their own existence, what happens after death, and also the natural world and how it was created. This volume tells the story of the peoples of the Americas, Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, Eastern Asia and Oceania, and their vast array of mythical characters, animals, places and events. It includes A-Z glossaries of over 500 mythological characters and an introduction whixh examines the parallels in world myths, drawing together the six geographical sections.

The legends of ancient Greece have come down through the ages in various permutations, never failing to entrance generation upon generation. This handsome volume presents the myths in the most accesible form, the stories are told simply but intriguingly