Heroes by Stephen Fry
$35.00 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: good
Mortals and Monsters Quests and Adventures Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fl ...Show more
Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$27.99 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
Don'ts for Wives by EBBUTT, BLANCHE
$9.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Don'ts Ser.
Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives are facsimile editions of the original books published by A&C Black in 1913. Each pocket-sized book contains hundreds of snippets of entertaining advice for a happy marriage, which rings true almost 100 years after it was written.The reissued titles are ideal ...Show more
Don'ts for Husbands by EBBUTT, BLANCHE
$9.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Don'ts Ser.
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History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A HISTORY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival. There has been human habitation in Britain, regular ...Show more
Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early Colonists by Fred Cahir, Ian D. Clark, Philip A. Clarke
$69.95 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator-prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and underappreciated by non-Aboriginal c ...Show more
Battles That Changed History (HB) by DK
$49.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
From the fury of the Punic Wars to the icy waters of Dunkirk, relive 5,000 years of world-changing combat with this guide to the most famous battles in history, including a foreword from TV presenter and historian Tony Robinson.This military history book takes you on a journey through the battlefields o ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrodinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect ...Show more
The Colony: a History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
$45.00 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: General Adult
The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blu ...Show more
Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
$34.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." --Simon Winchester Ghost Empire is a rare treasure--an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated by a master storyteller. ...Show more
Buckley's Chance (PB) by Garry Linnell
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. e was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England, ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more