Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Pilot On Board: The 175th Anniversary History of the Port Phillip Sea Pilots by Brendan Moloney
$79.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Crusader Armies - 1099-1187 by Steve Tibble
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which evolved during the course of the battles. In this ...Show more
History of World Trade in Maps by Philip Parker
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Trade is the lifeblood of nations. It has provided vital goods and wealth to countries and merchants from the ancient Egyptians who went in search of gold and ivory to their 21st-century equivalents trading high-tech electronic equipment from the Far East .In this beautiful book, more than 70 maps give ...Show more
The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket by Hamel, Christopher de
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval Europe and many works of literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Anouilh's ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens
$45.00 AUD
Category: First Nations Voices
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.
An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon Defoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated - and timely - history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. 'Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close' Countri ...Show more
A Short History of World War II by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: Military History
A reformatted, monochrome edition of The Civil War in a classic compact hardcover format. This is the definitive narrative history of the people, politics, and events of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world From the build-up to the fighting, through to the reverberations ...Show more
A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
Discover the beguiling history of witchcraft, magic, and superstition through the centuries in this stunningly illustrated title. A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult charts the extraordinary narrative of one of the most interesting and often controversial subjects in the world, covering everyt ...Show more
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwrightIn The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven c ...Show more
Midnight in Chernobyl - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
--THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-- 'An invaluable contribution to history.' Serhii Plokhy, Evening Standard'Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair. Midnight in Chernobyl is wonderful and chilling ... written with skill and passion.' Luke Harding, The Observer' ...Show more