{"product_id":"lost-to-time-book-martin-w-sandler-9781454913382","title":"Lost to Time","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStories that history forgot but readers will remember.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The only thing new in the world, said Harry S. Truman, is the history you don't know. In this fascinating collection of historical vignettes, Martin W. Sandler (author of \u003ci\u003eResolute\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e) restores to memory important events, people, and developments that have been lost to time.\u003cbr\u003eThough barely known today, these are major historical stories, from Ziryab, an eighth-century black slave whose influence on music, cuisine, fashion, and manners still reverberates, to Cahokia, a twelfth-century city north of the Rio Grande, which at its zenith contained a population estimated to have been as high as 40,000 (more than any contemporaneous European city), to the most devastating fire in US history not the Great Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871, but the Peshtigo Forest Fire in Wisconsin, which occurred on the same day.\u003cbr\u003eThese tales are far from trivia; they illuminate little-known American and foreign achievements, ingenuity, heroics, blunders, and tragedies that changed the course of history and still resonate today. Includes 76 black-and-white illustrations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49710941176081,"sku":"CIN145491338XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49992587575569,"sku":"CIN145491338XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50764041388305,"sku":"CIN145491338XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/145491338X.jpg?v=1750923133","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/lost-to-time-book-martin-w-sandler-9781454913382","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}