You can never get too much history – especially when it is well written (and told or read)!
My sister recently let me borrow Susan Wise Bauer’s book (and audiobook) “The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child.” What a delight! I’ve been listening to the book as I drive around town and the length of the chapters is great – each chapter only takes about 10 minutes to listen to.
Here are a few of the chapter heading for volume one (there are 4 volumes):
Chp. 1 – The Earliest People
Chp. 2 – Egyptians Lived on the Nile River
Chp. 3 – The first writing
Chp. 4 – The Old Kingdom of Egypt
Chp. 5 – The First Sumerian Dictator
I would recommend reading it (or listening to it, in my case) – young or old, history buffs or not.
thanks for the tip! i might have to get this for scott (of course i should read it myself too, but it sounds like something he would really enjoy!)