Renée Holler History Mysteries » Kublai Khan's Present « 10+, June 2007 128 pages, 13.0 x 20.0 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-4157-9 hardcover 7,90 € (D)

Quinsai, 13th Century: Marco Polo is a guest in the prefect's house when a burglar steals a precious vase. A kitchen boy disappears without trace during the same night. Neighbour children Ping and Meili are bewildered. But the solution of this case lies closer than they might have thought…
Against a backdrop of historic events, children from various epochs solve mysteries. Whether it is a theft in a monastery, a gang of confidence tricksters in Barbarossa's time, or a plot centered on the payment of Varus' legionaries - our "History Mysteries" bring the Middle Ages, ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire to life. The detailed appendix provides information about the epoch in question. "History Mysteries" make history fun!

Renée Holler was born in Würzburg in 1956. She studied ethnology, then worked in a publishing house ...