Crime, Punishment and Redemption: A Convict's Story by June Slee
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
John Ward, writing whilst incarcerated on Norfolk Island, tells a story of thwarted love that--he claims--led him to a life of crime: including theft, sexual assault and more. In telling the candid story of his downfall he exposes his own ruthlessness and lack of empathy. This book is an insight into th ...Show more
Titanic - The Tragic Story of the Ill-Fated Ocean Liner by Rupert Matthews
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The sinking of the liner Titanic on its maiden voyage in 1912 is one of the most dramatic stories in maritime history, fascinating people to this day. The author takes a fresh and updated look at a tragedy beyond compare, asking, How could it happen?
The Human Tide - How population shaped the modern world by Paul Morland
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America's emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan and has now sprea ...Show more
Scots and Catalans - Union and Disunion by John H. Elliott
$54.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sus ...Show more
Gallipoli 1915 by Alan Moorehead
$25.00 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the Germa ...Show more
Bethlehem - Biography of a Town by Nicholas Blincoe
$22.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
" Bethlehem] brings within reach 11,000 years of history, centering on the beloved town's unique place in the world. Blincoe's love of Bethlehem is compelling, even as he does not shy away from the complexities of its chronicle." --President Jimmy Carter Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth th ...Show more
Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his hand-picked crew embarked in HMS Endurance from London's West India Dock, for an expedition to the Antarctic. It was to turn into one of the most breathtaking survival stories of all time. Even as they coasted down the channel, ...Show more
1666: Plague, War and Hellfire by Rebecca Rideal
$34.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Not a Ser.
1666 was a watershed year for England. It was the year of the Great Plague; the eruption of the second Dutch War, the clash between two great powers which ultimately ended in one of the English military's most humiliating defeats; and the Great Fire. It is a year in which no single event existed alone a ...Show more
Banks by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery - the extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trump ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
$39.95 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more