A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By ...Show more
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told From the Edges by Lewis Baston
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'A stunningly topical and timely book. Lewis Baston is a remarkable talent, very gifted as a writer and quite extraordinarily perceptive and original in his thinking' ANTHONY SELDONA riveting history of Europe told through twenty-nine key borders that define the past, present and future of our continent ...Show more
How Do We Look? - The Eye of Faith by Mary Beard
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Civilisations
Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon SchamaThe idea of 'civilisation' has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big question of how people - from prehistory to the present day - have depi ...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
Smoky the Brave by Damien Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The World's Smallest Dog with the World's Biggest Heart Smoky the Brave is the extraordinary, touching and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles of the Pacific War. In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to engulf Australasia, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshire ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings by Kevin Crossley-Holland
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories.A series of intertwined tales which together form a strange and fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, battles and couplings, the Norse m ...Show more
Lessons From History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia’s Greatest Challenges by Edited by: Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity, David Lowe
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
In Lessons from History leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present.Does history repeat itself in meaningful ways, or is each problem unique? Does a knowledge of Australian histor ...Show more
The Squatters: The Story of Australia's Pastoral Pioneers by Barry Stone
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
For the early settlers who came from crowded cities and long established villages, it must have been extraordinary to find you could pack your belongings onto a bullock dray and head off to rural grasslands out of the reach of meddlesome authorities. They could just mark out a parcel of land, bring in s ...Show more
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond by Alice Roberts
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy.We can unlock secrets from bones preserved for centuries in tombs, graves and crypts.The history of the Middle Ages is typically the story of the rich and powerful ...Show more
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
As heard on NPR's This American Life "Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever." --Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime a ...Show more
Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans by Clare Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's fi ...Show more
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World by Roger Crowley
$41.95 AUD
Category: History
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reac ...Show more