Ancient man hendrik willem van loon biography

You are twelve and eight years old. Soon you will be grown up. You will leave home and begin your own lives.

Hendrik Willem van Loon was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on January 14, He immigrated to the United States in and attended Cornell University, where he received a.

I have been thinking about that day, wondering what I could do to help you. At last, I have had an idea. The best compass is a thorough understanding of the growth and the experience of the human race. Why should I not write a special history for you? So I took my faithful Corona and five bottles of ink and a box of matches and a bale of paper and began to work upon the first volume.

If all goes well there will be eight more and they will tell you what you ought to know of the last six thousand years. I am not going to present you with a textbook. Neither will it be a volume of pictures.

Ancient man: the beginning of civilization Bookreader Item Preview Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, Publication date Topics History, Ancient Publisher New York .

It will not even be a regular history in the accepted sense of the word. I shall just take both of you by the hand and together we shall wander forth to explore the intricate wilderness of the bygone ages. I shall show you mysterious rivers which seem to come from nowhere and which are doomed to reach no ultimate destination. I shall bring you close to dangerous abysses, hidden carefully beneath a thick overgrowth of pleasant but deceiving romance.

Here and there we shall leave the beaten track to scale a solitary and lonely peak, towering high above the surrounding country.