Shackleton: How the Captain of the newly discovered Endurance saved his crew in the Antarctic by Ranulph Fiennes
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The enthralling life, endurance and incredible leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes.To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endu ...Show more
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
A new, groundbreaking history of the fall of the Ottoman empire, published to coincide with its centenary In the autumn of 1918, revolution spread across Europe. One by one, grand imperial houses collapsed, allowing new republics to take their place. The fall of the Ottoman Empire is usually understood ...Show more
The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes by Stefan Eich
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies--money. Yet despite the centrality of political struggl ...Show more
Mysteries of the Far North - The Secret History of the Vikings in Greenland and North America by Jacques Privat; Claude Lecouteux (Foreword by)
$56.99 AUD
Category: History
Presents evidence of early Norse settlement in Greenland and North America* Explores in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were inhabited for nearly 5 centuries by two Nordic colonies, Vestri-bygd and Eystri-bygd* Shares extensive evidence from the still-living indigenous oral tradition of the Far ...Show more
Knockout: Great Australian Boxing Stories by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A no-holds-barred collection of Australian boxing yarns, from the bare-knuckle fighting of old to the modern greats ... The winners, the losers and the legends Boxing has given Australian sport some of our most inspiring champions and some of our most captivating tales. Stories of underdogs overcoming a ...Show more
Dictatorland - The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
One dictator grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-story-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. One austere, incorruptible leader shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. The Libyan army officer who aut ...Show more
A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pelican Bks.
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent ...Show more
Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Today, as liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a long shadow across our culture and politics. I ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"A wonderful story... It has all the ingredients of one of Patrick McGrath's icily stylish novels: madness, violence, arcane obsessions, weird learning, ghastly comedy" - John Banville, Literary Review. Two distinguished-looking Victorians, both learned and serious, yet from very different worlds: one a ...Show more
Over the Edge of the World Updated Edition - Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage--now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. "Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous ...Show more
The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict by Adrian Goldsworthy
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
The epic story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of the ancient world - Parthian and Persian - and how they rose and eventually fell. The Roman empire shaped the culture of the western world against which all other great powers are compared. Stretching from the north of Britai ...Show more
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerful and influential ...Show more