Format:
Book
Title:
Mummies : dried, tanned, drained, frozen, embalmed, stuffed, wrapped, and smoked-- and we're dead serious / by Christopher Sloan.
Author:
Sloan, Christopher.
Call Number:
j393.3 SLOAN
Publisher, Date:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010.
Description:
48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Summary:
Investigate mysteries from the grave in this creepy-fun compendium of the world's most fascinating mummies. Sloan's mesmerizing text reveals what the experts have discovered about each mummy's life and death.
Series:
National Geographic kids
Subjects:
Mummies -- Juvenile literature.
Mummies.
Contents:
Stuffed : the world's first mummies - Freeze-dried : murdered mountain man -- Dried : mummies in plaid -- Wrapped : the golden pharaoh -- Frozen : mummies of the nomads -- Tanned : bodies from the bogs -- Bundled : warrior woman -- Sealed : Korean time capsules -- Drained : clergy in the crypts -- Embalmed : celebrity mummies -- Smoked : the man who wants to be a mummy -- Time line : mummies through the ages -- Map : a world of mummies.
ISBN:
1426306954
9781426306952 (hardcover : alk. paper)