SOMEPLACE LIKE AMERICA by Maharidge Dale
$9.99 AUD
Category: History
In "Someplace Like America", writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life - through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis - the deepening crises of poverty and homelessn ...Show more
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt do ...Show more
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thou ...Show more
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time by Richard Fisher
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSONA wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehe ...Show more
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization: A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse by Graham Hancock
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***'Hancock's books provide a fascinating,alternative version of prehistory. America Before,detailed and wide-ranging, turns what was myth and legend into a new story of the past.' Daily MailWas an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that e ...Show more
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
When the fate of the nation is in your hands, who do you call?
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Reid Mitenbuler
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II. Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself buried al ...Show more
Warrior: The epic story of Caratacus, warrior Briton and enemy of the Roman Empire by Simon Scarrow
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Warrior Ser.
From the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The Honour of Rome and The Emperor's Exile comes a brilliant new novel about the dangerous warrior Caratacus - a barbarian who threatened the future of the Empire . . . The Romans invaded Britannia in AD 43 confident of victory. They swept through a divide ...Show more
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Fiona Maddocks
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
From the massively popular podcaster and New York Times bestselling author comes the story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to protect the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Revol ...Show more
A History of Scotland by Neil Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The dramatic story of Scotland - by charismatic television historian, Neil Oliver. Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures that dominate Scottish history - tales of failure, submission, thwarted ambition and tragedy - often badly se ...Show more