An extraordinary journey in history!
Exciting and thrilling historical stories
This book offers 40 accounts taken from the eponymous podcast. 40 trips through the centuries and the world. Extremely documented, these stories offer a summary of knowledge and general culture. Laure Grandbesançon, author and actress, leads the readers in a frenzied and fun dive in the heart of history. Each odyssey, staged with humor and mystery, reads like an adventure novel.
The work is divided into 6 thematic parts:
- Great characters in history: Cleopatra, Jeanne d’Arc, Léonard da Vinci, Molière, Napoleon…
- Large fights: Vercingétorix against César, Martin Luther King, Simone Veil…
- Expeditions and discoveries: Marco Polo, Magellan, Apollo 11…
- Adventurers and adventurers of the world: Calamity Jane, Amelia Earthart
- Farm enigmas and surveys: the iron mask, the Loch Ness monster, the poisons affair at the Louis XIV court …
- Great scientific figures: Marie Curie, Maurice and Katia Krafft…
This third opus, rich in text and accompanied by illustrations like engravings, is intended for a slightly older readership (from 10 years old) than the previous ones.
Laure Grandbesançon Grows up in Marseille. After studying philosophy at the Sorbonne and eight years of theater, she begins to work in France Inter as a production assistant, then on the antenna in the morning of the weekend. She then holds the chronicle Teenagers. Passionate about history and investigations, she launched the Podcast series in June 2019 Odysseyswhich today has more than 160 episodes and more than 45 million cumulative listenings.
In 2024, France Inter Lance The Odyssey School A national podcast creation competition for CM2 classes, to stimulate the listening and creativity of the youngest.
Soul is an Italian illustrator installed in Sweden. He works regularly for the international press.