Hilarious tales set in the ancient Mediterranean

A European best-selling series, in print continuously since 1946, now for the first time in English.

In the darkest hour of Nazi occupation during World War 2, a Polish man wrote books to divert his children. The result is this series of absolutely hilarious adventure stories set in the ancient Mediterranean 570-540 B.C. Fast-paced, sparse, and humorous, they have been readers' favorites for over 70 years.

Each book is an independent novel, set variously in Carthage, Sicily, Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Black Sea, but the appearance of several characters connects them all. Twists and turns galore, white-knuckled last-minute escapes, a great and historically accurate page-turner.

Some books never age.

The best historical adventure series of the interwar period"
Czesław Miłosz