This book is part of a book series called Usborne Encyclopedia .

There are 127 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2008 by Usborne Books .

Gill Harvey studied French and Philosophy at Oxford, and has been puzzling over life ever since. She became a writer/editor at Usborne Publishing then decided to go freelance and writing has become a way of life. Her love of horses has resulted in eight of the Heartland titles for Scholastic Inc under the name of Lauren Brooke; she has also written for the Young Animal Ark series as Lucy Daniels. A year spent commuting to Egypt led to the writing of Orphan of the Sun, Gill's first book for Bloomsbury, and subsequently to the Egyptian Chronicles series. Jonathan Litton has written and edited a number of non-fiction titles for children. Tom Connell has more than 20 years of illustration experience, and mainly focuses on vehicles and machines. Ian Jackson studied Technical and Scientific Illustration, and has had his work widely published in a variety of formats. Straun Reid is a graduate in archaeology, and worked for five years on historical sites in the Middle East. He returns to give lectures on the castles of the saracens and the crusaders.