With Veronika Válková
into history - a trip for the whole family!
Charles IV.
A Kidnap in Paris
The very first of Bára's adventures. The magical atlas transports her to the castle of the French King Philip V, where she is immediately caught up in the abduction of a high-born girl! And who is this infatuated young man, willing to climb castle walls, fight in a tournament, and secretly flee his brother-in-law's castle—all for the sake of his beloved? Well, you might be a bit surprised...
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Rome
The Thrill in Pompeii
Becoming a slave girl was never something Bára had desired. But she's lucky—her master is a kind man. However, strange things are happening in his house... Bára is the only one who can solve the mystery. But if she fails, someone will lose his or her life.
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The Hussits
An Adventure With Sling Boy
The beginning of the 15th century was not a peaceful time in the Kingdom of Bohemia. The country was in the midst of religious turmoil. One of the famous battles of this time was fought on Vítkov Hill in Prague. Unfortunately, the magical atlas sends Bára directly into the heart of the battle... After this horrifying start, Bára embarks on her adventure alongside a teenage Hussite fighter, the orphaned Borek, whose weapon of choice is a sling. But Borek is captured by the Catholics and faces execution. Bára's mission is to free him—a difficult task for a twelve-year-old girl...
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Rudolf II.
Conspiracy at the Imperial Court
Every time Bára is sent to the past, she appears dressed in the
right costume. But this time she appeared in front of the Emperor
Rudolf II in her own dress! Is it a mistake of the magical atlas - or
is it intentional? Bára pretends that she comes from the stars and
it earns her a strong interest of the Emperor. By accident she hears
that somebody is planning to murder the Emperor and she decides to
thwart the plan. Sons of the famous astrologist Tycho Brahe are very
helpful in carrying out the task and thanks to them Bára meets not
only Tycho Brahe himself and Johannes Kepler, but the well-known
Jewish rabbi Jehuae ben Becalel too. But what about golem? Bára
can´t wait to meet him!
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Vikings
The Mystery of Horned Helmets
Vikings are well-known all around the world, but what about the Varangians? Are they the same – or not? And what about the warriors on the dragon ship? Do Vikings really not wear horned helmets? Bára is a bit confused. But she has no time to think about details. Someone has tried to kill the chieftain of the dragon ship, which is on its way from Novgorod (Holmgardur) to Constantinople (Mikligardur). The murder committed among the crew is not the only problem they face. Wild Slavic troops are attacking the crew, and Bára can see that the bloodthirsty warrior stories told by Vikings around the night fires are very real...
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Ghetto Theresienstadt
The Mysterious Train to the Unknown
This time, Bára finds herself in the middle of the night in a strange town. There are no streetlights, all the windows are dark, and the streets are eerily empty... except for a couple of men pushing a cart with—dead bodies! Is there a gang of murderers operating in this town? This is the most horrifying night of Bára's life. She hides in an abandoned attic, where she is later discovered by a teenager named Petr, who decides to help her survive in Theresienstadt. Petr explains that they are in a Jewish ghetto in 1944. When Petr and his friends are sent to Auschwitz, Bára refuses to stay behind in Theresienstadt. She refuses to stay in Theresienstadt alone...
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Egypt
In the Heart of the Pyramid
To swim in a river is quite fine, but not together with a crocodile! Bára was very lucky that accidentaly a hunter named Maimose was near and killed the crocodile, otherwise the crocodile would have had a delicious dinner... But - was it an accident? Or was it a cat goddess Bastet who sent Maimose to rescue Bára, because she needed her for a special plan? Who knows? But when Bára falls asleep in Bastet's temple, and the goddess appears in her dream, delivering a mysterious message that leads Bára directly into the heart of the pyramid...
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Maria Theresia
A Dragoon in Love
Life in a small village seems quiet and boring, but only at first glance. The relationships between neighbours are, well... difficult. When Bára's best friend, Vojta, is sent to the army simply because he loved a girl against the will of her rich father, Bára decides to travel to Vienna to ask Her Majesty Maria Theresia to release Vojta from the army. But the journey to Vienna is long and dangerous, especially for a little girl...
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Maria Theresia
The Secret of the Imperial Chambers
Bára thought that asking the queen to release Vojta from the army would be her only task in the palace. But Her Majesty allowed her to spend a few weeks living as a princess – something every girl would dream of! – and the situation became increasingly complicated. Bára must figure out who the mysterious man is whom the queen meets in the middle of the night, help arrange a secret meeting between Archduchess Marianna and the French Vicomte Philippe, and realize that being a princess is not quite what she had imagined.
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Troyan War
The Wrath of Poseidon
Bára's first journey into the past took her to the city of Troy, right in the middle of a quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon. Back home, Bára discovers that Achilles' friend, Patroclus, will pay with his life for the conflict. From that moment on, she desperately tries to return to warn Achilles. And finally, after several attempts, she makes it! But—by a twist of fate—she finds herself not in the Achaean camp, but in Troy, under siege.
Very soon, she realizes that her knowledge of Greek legends is pretty useless here, that the love story between Paris and Helen is quite different from what she imagined, and that the fate of the Trojans is much closer to her heart than that of the Achaeans. But the fates of the heroes on both sides are so interwoven that if the Trojan prince Hector is to survive, Patroclus must be saved as well. Bára has only one choice: to embark on a life-threatening journey to the Achaean camp...
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Pirates
Adventure in the Thirty-years War
It seems that the main concern of people living in Iceland is to survive the freezing cold and find something to eat. It is quite a challenge; for instance collecting ordinary eggs is an expedition worth Tarzan himself as the men rope down severe cliffs and hang above the thundering tide with no climbing equipment to secure them. What´ s more: people live in molehills there. Really! The roof is overgrown by grass and the house looks like a mound from outside. But the Icelanders manage. They are well accustomed to their struggle with nature. But one - exceptionally beautiful - day pirate ships from distant north Africa appear near their coast...
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Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa Smile
Florence in the fifteenth century is a charming city, home to many renowned artists whose works are still admired in the twenty-first century. But it is also a battleground for a fierce struggle between two rich and powerful families—the Medici and the Pazzi. And—unwittingly—Bára becomes part of the conflict. She doesn't have to do much—just be in the right place at the right time, and, by sheer chance, a message for one of the Medici ends up in her hands. Her new friends, Sandro and Leonardo, help her navigate the situation. Being friends with Leonardo, after all, is a never-ending adventure. A secret project to build a hand-glider would be an exciting challenge even today, let alone in 1470! It's a good thing that at least Sandro is the one with common sense... Anyway, have you ever wondered who Leonardo da Vinci used as the model for the Mona Lisa? Just open the book and read the story.
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Saint Wenceslas
It doesn´ t End with Murder
If you think of St. Wenceslas as a dull, prayerful patron saint, you might be surprised to learn that he was actually a valiant warrior, able to match his entourage tankard for tankard . He was married and had an illegitimate son. But on that fateful September morning, death awaited him at the church after all. But whose hand was it that brought it to him?
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King Charles IV.
Fatal Tournament
Bára gets a wonderful opportunity to meet Charles IV again. But for her, it has only been a few weeks since their last encounter, while for Charles, it has been twenty years. Will he even recognize her? No longer just a royal, he now wears two crowns and aspires to the imperial crown. And he's still the knight at heart, loving tournaments more than anything. But as a two-time king, he must not gamble with his life. So, he competes in the tournaments without revealing who he really is. But at one tournament, something terrible happens...
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Fighting for America
An Unexpected Encounter
During the Seven Years' War, France and Britain also clashed in North America. The dense forests around the Great Lakes are teeming with soldiers and Indians, and the French fort where Bára has taken refuge is anything but safe—the English are about to launch an attack, and Bára is suspected of helping a captured Indian escape. But then, she meets someone she never expected to find here...
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Indians
Chieftain´s Daughter
The way one makes decisions matters more than Bára could have ever imagined. But when the atlas unexpectedly transports her to the exact same place as last time, and she chooses to take a different path, an entirely new story begins to unfold. She is captured by Native Americans, faces a fear for her very life, makes unexpected discoveries about their way of life, worries about meeting herself, and uncovers a surprising solution to a mystery.
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Japan
Geisha and samurai
As a foreigner, Bára struggles in 19th-century Japan. That is, at least until a sympathetic samurai decides to turn her into a geisha due to a 300-year-old prophecy. But even then, things don't get any easier. As a geisha, she's forced to undertake a dangerous espionage mission, one on which the samurai's life depends. Eventually, intrigue leads Bára to secret passages beneath a temple, where ninjas are rumoured to be hiding...
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The birth of Czechoslovakia 1918
No pardon for high treason
Life in a small town at the end of the war isn't filled with wild events, but the tension is ever-present. Who will be drafted before the war ends? Does the postman bring a letter from her husband at the front, or the dreaded official notice that he has fallen in battle? Where will we get flour, potatoes, milk? How will we heat the house? And in the midst of all this, Bára realizes that she is old enough to be shot for treason, simply for uttering one small sentence...
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Stone age
Vengeance of the Grey Lion
One of the first creatures Bára spotted was a mammoth — fortunately, grazing across the river. But when a man from the Fox People, the tribe where Bára had found refuge, decided to avenge his brother, killed by a sabre-toothed lion, Bára´ s adventure became far more exciting than she ever could have imagined.
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Mesopotamia
In the Service of the High Priestess
That city, Uruk, looked like it had been destroyed by a natural disaster. But it was the work of King Naram-Sin. An encounter with a young merchant, Tilhar, who lost his entire family in Uruk, and an incredible coincidence entangle Bara in a supremely important and dangerous mission - to deliver to King Naram-Sin a message from his aunt, the High Priestess Enheduanna, whose life is under threat. But if the message is delivered, another city will suffer the same fate as Uruk. Moreover, Bara is accompanied by Tilhar, who has sworn death to Naram-Sin...
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Bretislaus and Judith
Monastery Intrigue
Escaping through an endless forest from a creepy man with worms crawling from his body, Bára ends up with a sprained ankle. Like something out of a B-movie, a knight saves her at the last moment and helps her find refuge in a monastery. To her horror, Bára soon discovers that one of the noble girls being raised there is about to be kidnapped. This must be stopped at all costs! Along the way, Bára uncovers incredible secrets from the old abbess's past...
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THE PRAGUE UPRISING
Roses and Barricades
It's April 25, 1945. Only Bára knows that only two weeks remain until the end of the Second World War. The German army, retreating from the Allies in Bohemia and Moravia, is determined to defend itself to the last breath. When an uprising breaks out in Prague, Bára feels compelled to join as a nurse with a troop of scouts she has befriended. She doesn't even consider that in war, it might not only be her life at stake...
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ARABIA
Among the Bedouins
The ruin in the middle of the desert seemed like the perfect refuge from the Bedouins. They were too afraid to enter, believing it was inhabited by demons. But one man had the courage. To Bára's astonishment, he spoke Czech! Who is this Bedouin sheikh? What is he so interested in at a half-ruined castle in the barren wasteland? And why must Bára join him on a life-threatening journey through the desert to Damascus?
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KOREA
The Secret of Ancient Oracles
What must happen to fulfill a prophecy spoken ages ago? And does man even have a chance to influence what was once foretold, especially when someone's life depends on its fulfillment? Yet, by revealing it to someone else, is he risking his own life? This is exactly the situation Bára finds herself in when she becomes caught in the middle of the war between Korea and Japan. An encounter with a genuine mermaid and being mistaken for a hungry demon were among the less dramatic episodes...
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REALM OF SAMO
Crime in the Dark Woods
What happens when a young slave girl overhears a conversation she definitely shouldn't have heard? And then, by accident, reveals it to someone who doesn't want it known? That's right – she needs to be removed from the picture! This is exactly the situation Bára finds herself in, as she discovers that what she remembered from her history book about the Samo Empire is actually quite different. But no one would ever believe her, even if she manages to escape the dangerous schemes of power-hungry men.
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Scotland
The Glencoe Massacre
A winter like the one in 1692 had not been remembered for a long time. Snowstorm after snowstorm buried the land, and the snow was waist-deep rather than knee-deep. When the frosty royal soldiers arrived in the picturesque Glencoe valley to collect taxes, the MacIains offered them shelter, for that was the law of Scottish hospitality. Little did anyone know at the time that an order would come, turning peaceful coexistence into a bloodbath. And little did Bára know that her search for the person who issued the order would lead her all the way to the court of King Louis XIV of France.
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French revolution
One Step Away from the Guillotine
Even in the spring of 1793, the small town near Paris lived a peaceful life and there was no indication that a revolution was raging in France. Meeting the most educated and progressive ladies of the time was interesting but, frankly, a little boring. Bára was quite happy to find herself back in her own time rather quickly. But... But then she discovered that a number of her new friends were facing death by guillotine, and decided to return to warn them. But in the meantime, the Jacobins have come to power in France, and now it is Bára whose life is under threat…
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CELTS
Druid´ s treasure
This Bára´ s story is perhaps the most mystical yet. It couldn't have been any other way, meeting druids who possess knowledge we can only dream of today. On top of that, Bára discovers that she has already encountered the druid Kengetorig once before – in his past. She has yet to have this meeting herself. It's a bit convoluted, especially for someone like Bára, who, as the druid says, comes from the "unchanted world..."
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TWILIGHT OF HUSSITES
Friendship that Even Fire Cannot Overcome
Bára's grandmother always said that God punishes people by granting their wishes. Bára had longed to meet Bork, the young man she had encountered on one of her first journeys into the past. The magical atlas finally granted her wish. But the reunion did not go as Bára had hoped, and it nearly ended in death by fire. On top of that, Bára discovered the butterfly effect—how even the smallest action can set an incredible chain of events into motion. What are the consequences of someone hitting you over the head with a city seal? Aside from a bump, of course...
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INDIA
The Queen of Jhansi
Who seeks the destruction of the Queen of Jhansi? Why does he need Bara's severed head to do it? How to convict the conspirators? And who is the apprentice of the ten masters? What surprises await in the British military camp - and what dangers lurk in the temple of the goddess Kali? Bára never imagined that an expedition to India in the mid-19th century would be this wild. Well, when an atlas transports you to a foreign land at a time when there is an uprising, there is no shortage of life-threatening situations. At least Bara got to fulfill one dream - to pet a live elephant.
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