The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure was never before pub ...Show more
The Revolutionary Temper by Robert Darnton
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian'Events do not come naked into the world. They come clothed - in attitudes, assumptions, values, memories of the past, anticipations of the future, hopes and fears and many other emot ...Show more
A Small Town in Ukraine - The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before.Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated- Krakowiec (Krah- ...Show more
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth. In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found. This is its story. 'Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson Michael Palin - Monty Python ...Show more
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, from Europe to the Antipodes, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Tra ...Show more
The Royal Art of Poison - Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Replete with royal conspiracies as venomous as the toxins they used to obtain power, beauty and revenge. The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, t ...Show more
The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway's Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the ...Show more
Land - How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. The ownership of land has always been complicated, opaque, and more than a little anarchic when viewed from the outside. In this book, ...Show more
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by Countess of Carnarvon
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon In November 1922, a new door to the ancient past was opened. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun would be the most astonishing of the young century, revealing the ruler’s sarcophagus and a treasure trove of artefacts: chariots and model boats, b ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
$47.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about ...Show more
Fake Heroes - Ten False Icons and How They Altered the Course of History by Otto English
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the author of bestseller Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars in history. 'A brilliant book.' James O'Brien Whether it's virtuous leaders in just wars, martyrs sacrificing all for a cause, or innovators changing the world for the better, dow ...Show more
The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support ...Show more