If you can find a copy of this book, you will I think, find it most interesting...

"Van Loon's Lives", by Hendrick Willem Van Loon written somewhere around the late 1930s,( soon after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands) is a wonderful flight of imagination based on two Dutch gentlemen who decide to somehow magically invite different famous historical people to their home for weekly dinners.

Each dinner is prefaced with a thumbnail explanation of each character, and why they are being invited together, and the dinners themselves are utterly delightful, as well as a great way to learn some history along the way.

I highly recommend this book if you can track a copy down, most likely through Amazon used books.(Deckman took my advice and chortled his way through it while in hospital dealing with his hip.) It's a great alternative to the idea of being able to travel back into time...rather bringing your favorite figures from the past back for dinner at your house!..xx..e