With Veronika Válková
into history - a trip for the whole family!
Charles IV.
A Kidnap in Paris
The very first of Bara´ s adventures. The magical atlas takes her to the castle of the French king Philip V. Here she is immediately involvaed in an abduction of a high-born girl! And who is this enamoured teenager, who is ready to climb the castle walls, to fight in a tournament and to fly secretly from his brother-in-law´s castle only for the sake of his beloved young lady? Well, you will be a bit surprised...
Audiobook music: Václav Neckář jr.
Rome
The Thrill in Pompeii
To become a slave girl is not the very thing which Bara ever desired. But she is lucky because her master is a fine man. In his house, however, strange things are going on... Bara is the only person who can solve the mystery. But if she fails, somebody will lose his (or her) life.
The Hussits
An Adventure With Sling Boy
The beginning of the 15th century was not a very peaceful time in the Czech kingdom. The country is in the turmoil of religious wars. One of the famous battles of this time was fought on the Vítkov hill in Prague. Unfortunately, the magical atlas sends Bára directly in the thick of the battle... After this horrible start Bára spends her adventure by the side of a teenage Hussite fighter, orphan Borek, whose weapon is - a sling. But Borek is captured by the Catholics and he is about to be executed. Bára´s task is to liberate him. A difficult task for a twelve-year old girl...
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!
Vikings
The Mystery of Horned Helmets
Vikings are well-known all around the world. But what about Varangians? Are they the same - or not? And - are the warriors on the dragon ship Vikings having NO horned helmets? Bára is a bit confused. But she has no time to thing about details. Somebody wanted to kill the chieftain of the dragon ship which is on the way from Novgorod (Holmgardur) to Constantinople (Mikligardur). The murder committed among the crew of the ship is not the only problem on the way... Wild troops of Slavs are attacking the crew and Bára can see that bloodthirsty warrior stories told by Vikings by the night fires are very real...
Ghetto Theresienstadt
The Mysterious Train to the Unknown
This time Bára appears in the middle of the night in a very strange town. No streetlights, all windows dark, nobody on the street... Nobody except of a couple of men pushing a cart with - dead corpses! Is there a gang of murderers operating in this town?! This night was the most horrible one in Bára´s life. She hides in an abandoned attic where she is later discovered by a teenager called Petr who decides to help her to survive in Theresienstadt. Petr explains to her that they are in a Jewish ghetto in 1944. When Petr and his friends are sent to Auschwitz, Bára decides to go with them. She refuses to stay in Theresienstadt alone...
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, becouse she needed her for a special plan? Who knows? But when Bára falls asleep in Bastet´s temple, the goddess appears in her dream and commits her a mysterious message which takes Bára dircetly into the heart of the pyramid...
Maria Theresia
The Dragoon in Love
The live on small village seems to be quiet and boring. But only for the first sight. The relationship between neighbours are... difficult. When he best friend of Bára, Vojta, was sent to the army only becouse he loved certain girl against the will of her rich father, Bára decided to go to Wien to ask Her Majesty Maria Theresia to let Vojta leave the army. But the way to Wien is long and dangerous, expecially for little girl...
Maria Theresia
The Secret of the Imperial Chambers
Bára supposed that to ask the queen to let Vojta leave the army was the only task in the palace. But Her Majesty allowed her to spend a couple of weeks as a princess – this is what every girl would wish! - and the situation became more and more complicated. Bára have to solve who is the mysterious man which whom the queen meets in the middle of night, to arrange secret date of archduchess Marianna with French vicomt Philippe and to recognize that to be a princess is not the very thing which she ever desired.
Troyan War
The Anger of Poseidon
Bára's first journey in the past took her to the city of Troy right in the middle of a quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon. Back home Bára found out that Achille's friend Patroclus will pay with his life for the quarrel. From that moment she keeps trying to get back there to warn Achilles. And finally, after several attempts, she is there! But! By a twist of fate instead of the Achaean camp she finds herself in Troy under siege. Very soon she learns that her knowledge of Greek legends is pretty useless here, that love between Paris and Helen is quite a different story and that the fate of Trojans is closer to her heart than the fate of Achaeans. But the fates of the heroes on both sides are so interwoven that if the Trojan prince Hector should survive than Patroclus must be saved too. Therefore Bára has only one choice: to set on a life threatening journey to the camp of Achaeans...
.
Pirates
Adventure in the Thirty-years War
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa Smile
Florence in the fifteenth century is a charming town which is home to many renowned artists whose works are admired even in the twenty-first century. But the town is also a stage for a fierce fight between two rich and powerful families – the Medici and Pazzi family. And – unwittingly - Bára becomes part of the fight; she needn't do much, just be in the right place at the right time and a message for one of the Medici family gets by, sheer chance, in her hands. Her new friends, Sandro and Leonardo, help her to get out of the situation. Being friends with Leonardo, is, after all, a never-ending adventure: a secret construction of a hand-glider would be an exciting adventure even today, let alone in 1470! It's a good thing that at least Sandro is the one with a common sense... Anyway, have you always wished to solve the mystery who did Leonardo da Vinci portray as Mona Lisa? Just open the book and read the story.
Saint Venceslaus
It Ends Not With Murder
Every little child knows that Saint Wenceslas was murdered by his brother Boleslav. Well … they think they know. However, Bára is an eyewitness to what really happened.
Saint Wenceslas Chant is a beautiful piece, it is far from being presented as a chant though. Well, it was not composed in Wencesla's times. Very little sheet music has been preserved from that period. It was probably composed in 12th century.
King Charles IV.
Fatal Tournament
Fighting for America
An Unexpected Encounter
Indians
Chieftain´s Daughter
Japan
Geisha and samurai
The birth of Czechoslovakia 1918
No pardon for high treason
Stone age
Vengeance of Grey Lion
Mesopotamia
In the Service of High Priestess
Bretislaus and Judith
Monastery Intrigue
Click here and start typing. Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium.
Arabia
That ruin in the middle of the desert looked like an excellent refuge from the Bedouins. They were afraid to enter it because they believed it was inhabited by demons. But one man had the courage. To Bara's astonishment, he spoke Czech! Who is this Bedouin sheikh? What is he so interested in in a half-ruined castle in the arid wasteland? And why will Bára have to go with him on a life-threatening journey through the desert to Damascus?
Korea
What must happen for the prophecy spoken ages ago to come true? And does a man even have a chance to influence what was once prophecied? Especially when he knows that someone's life depends on its fulfillment, but by telling anyone aobout it, he risks his own? This is exactly the situation that Bára finds herself in when she is in the middle of a war between Korea and Japan. An encounter with a genuine mermaid and being confused for a hungry demon were among the less dramatic incidents...
Scotland
No one had remembered such a hard winter as in 1692 for years. Blizzard followed blizzard, and the snow was waist-deep rather than knee-deep. When the frost-bitten royal soldiers came to the picturesque Glencoe valley to collect taxes, the MacIains took them under their roofs because so says the law of Scottish hospitality. Little did anyone know at the time that an order would come that would turn a peaceful coexistence into a bloodbath. And Bára could never have known that her search for the person who gave the order would lead her to the court of King Louis XIV of France.
Realm of Samo
What happens when a little slave girl overhears a conversation she definitely shouldn't have heard? And yet inadvertently reveals it to someone who doesn't need the conversation to be known? That's right - she needs to be moved out of the way! This was exactly the situation that Bára found herself in, while discovering that what she remembered from her history book about the Samo Empire was actually somewhat different. But no one would ever believe her, even if she did escape the dangerous schemes of the men hungry for power.
French revolution
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 littel boring. Bara 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 Bara whose life is under threat...
Celts
Druid´ s treasure
This Bára story is probably the most mystical yet. I don't think it could have been any different, meeting druids who possessed knowledge we can't even dream of today. Plus, Bara found out that she had already met the druid Kengetorig once before - in his past. She has yet to have this encounter. A bit convoluted, for someone who comes, as the druid says, from the unchanted world…
Twilight of Hussits
