From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat broke apart in a storm. Their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove were stranded more than 500 kilometres southeast in Bass Strait. To rescue their mates and to save themselves the 19 men must w ...Show more
Walking with the ANZACS: A Complete Guide to the Australian Battlefields of the Western Front 1916-18 by Mat McLachlan
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
WALKING WITH THE ANZACS aims to become the new essential companion for Australians visiting the Western Front. Each of the 14 most important Australian battlefields is covered with descriptions of the battles and Australia s involvement in it. The book presents a well-illustrated walking tour across the ...Show more
Waterfront: Graft, Corruption and Violence - Australia's Crime Frontier from 1788 to Now by Duncan McNab
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor, Australia's ports have been our opening to the world. They are also the breeding ground for many of Australia's most notorious criminals, and a magnet for local and overseas criminal syndicates. WATERFRONT is the story of the crimes, the politics, the character ...Show more
Who Discovered America? - The untold history of the peopling of the Americas by Ian Hudson, Gavin Menzies
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Building on the startling revelations of 1421, iconic historian Gavin Menzies explores the possibility that mankind made transcontinental voyages centuries before the supposed discoveries of European explorers. With meticulous research and an adventurer's spirit, Menzies has uncovered astounding new evi ...Show more
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We are by Michael Pye
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The Edge of the World by Michael Pye is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation by sea. "Elegant writing and extraordinary scholarship ...miraculous". (Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author ...Show more
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Master Bridge Ser.
'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ...Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' Economist It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catheri ...Show more
Jerusalem - The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Jerusalem is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the "center of the wor ...Show more
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
FLINDERS brings to life the fascinating story of this exceptional maritime explorer from the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel imprisonment by the French on Mauritius for six long and harrowing years; the heartbreaking separation from his be ...Show more
An Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Sobekmose by P. F. O'Rourke
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead genre. Such 'books' - papyrus scrolls - were composed of traditional funerary texts, including magic spells, that were thought t ...Show more
Jack the Ripper by OTTO PENZLER
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The predatory ritual, the escalating savegery of the crimes, the grisly trophies taken from his victim's bodies, the games played with his pursuers, the cannibalism: Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London's East End during the autumn of 1888 casts a long shadow. Many have murdered more, but few hav ...Show more
Simpson and the donkey by Peter Cochrane
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The simple tale of Simpson and his donkey is the pre-eminent legend of heroism. It is the story of a humble water-carrier, a rescuer of wounded men, a tale of compassion, stoic persistence, with a tragic end. His tale is an integral part of the Anzac story. Across time, a simple tale can acquire a compl ...Show more