Desert Kingdom [Hardcover] Patnaik, Naveen

An entertaining, authoritative guide to living history, covering hundreds of meticulously researched re-enactment events, from battles to royal progresses, medieval feasts to Saxon village life. Together with Britain's great living history museums, they reveal the practical activities that defined our ancestors' lives - farming, cooking, constructing buildings, waging wars and making clothes by hand - and provide a direct experience of the past.