Peter Connolly.

Traces the early life and career of the Roman soldier who served under the Emperor Trajan, in his great wars in Central Europe and the Middle East.

The word 'yoga' conjures up in the minds of many Westerners images of people performing exercises and adopting unusual, contortive postures. Such exercises and postures do have a place within the practice of yoga, but it is much more than that. Indeed, the early literature on yoga describes and defines it as a form of mental rather than physical discipline. Yoga is also associated with the Indian subcontinent and the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism....

Describes the earth's origin, fossils, and the characteristics of prehistoric animals