The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History by Roland Ennos
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four poster bed. In a journey to appreciate how much wood matters – and has done since prehistory ...Show more
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism- the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. 'A sparkling gem of a book. Beautifully written and masterfully researched, this has the makings of a classic' Peter Frankopan ...Show more
Spymaster - The Man Who Saved MI6 by Helen Fry
$22.95 AUD
Category: History
The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War Two: Thomas Kendrick Thomas Kendrick (1881-1972) was central to the British Secret Service from its beginnings through to the Second World War. Under the guise of "British Passport ...Show more
Blood on the River - A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A breathtakingly original history of the Berbice Slave Rebellion, the event that almost changed the face of the Americas.
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister - Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
$15.00 AUD
Category: History
A major new biography from the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, Mao and Empress Dowager Cixi- a gripping story of sisterhood, revolution and betrayal, and three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020*Meet the three wom ...Show more
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Mongols have long been viewed in the West as violent barbarians who plundered and wrecked the societies they invaded. But in fact the Mongol Empire was highly sophisticated, and through their conquests they built a new world order. Within the space of a single generation, they swept across the Midd ...Show more
A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame ...Show more
Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk's searing visions of the unity of humanity and Ear ...Show more
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
$21.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Pales ...Show more
The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.'A magnificent book . . . at once touching, exquisite, devastating and extraordinary.'PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street and The Ratline'A vivid, funny, and imperturbable po ...Show more
The History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Alexander the Great by Nigel Rodgers
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
This title deals with ancient Greece and the rise of Macedonia, the campaigns of Alexander and his mighty empire. This stirring history of the age of Alexander examines the dramatic life and times of one of the world's most remarkable men and the growth of his immense empire. It explores the military st ...Show more