The Modern Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This book profiles thirty-nine modern explorers who have disproved the idea that there is nowhere left to discover and explore. Some are greatly experienced and are celebrated worldwide, while others are young or less well known and just starting to make their mark. Here are challenging and extraordina ...Show more
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters economic, political and military - the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It ...Show more
The Witches - Salem, 1692 - A History by Stacy Schiff
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated m ...Show more
Historic Maps and Views of London by George Sinclair
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a unique and fascinating collection of 24 London maps and panoramic views dating from the 17th century to the present day. Included with each map is information about the original printing and a brief text that places it in historic context. The selections include some of the earliest known maps ...Show more
The Assassination Of Julius Caesar: A People's History Of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Press People's History Ser.
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Globe: Life in Shakespeare's London by Catharine Arnold
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, opened the Globe playhouse on B ...Show more
The Emperor's Shadow: Bonaparte, Betsy and the Balcombes by Anne Whitehead
$9.99 AUD
Category: History
'The Emperor's Shadow' tells the true story of Napoleon Bonaparte's friendship with Betsy Balcombe and her family, the only English people he ever lived with, during his exile on St Helena.
Collecting Colditz: A Unique Pictorial Record of Life Behind the Walls by Michael Booker
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Over forty years of research has resulted in this exceptional photographic history of life within Colditz Castle, the infamous Second World War prisoner of war camp in Germany, which housed such illustrious names as Douglas Bader, Lorne Welch, Micky Burns and Jack Best. Michael Booker has accumulated a ...Show more
Gladiators: Fighting to the Death in Ancient Rome by M. C. Bishop
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Casemate Short History
The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duals in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous 'thumbs down' signal) or spared at the whim of the crowd or the Emperor. Few lasted mo ...Show more
Greek Warriors: Hoplites and Heroes by Carolyn Willekes
$19.98 AUD
Category: History
Thermopylae, Marathon: though fought 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece, the names of these battles are more familiar to many than battles fought in the last half-century; but our concept of the men who fought in these battles may be more a product of Hollywood than Greece. Shaped by the landscape in whi ...Show more
The Illustrated Truth About the Titanic by Archibald Gracie
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
In April 1912 the Titanic sank, taking 1500 people to their deaths in the freezing Atlantic. One survivor, the author Archibald Gracie, was one of the last to leave the doomed ship, aboard the last lifeboat to leave the stricken vessel. Telling the story of the ship's final days, he was meticulous in hi ...Show more