Jerusalem: The Biography A History of the Middle East by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world ...Show more
How to Survive History by Cody Cassidy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A humorous and information guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive. A humorous and informative guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive.History is the mo ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller tha ...Show more
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. It is also a memoir of the soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia .Lawrence i ...Show more
Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$24.99 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
On a Winner: 125 Years City Tattersalls Club by Marea Donnelly
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Getting High - Marijuana in World History by John Charles Chasteen
$50.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Exploring World History Ser.
In the Time of Their Lives: Wangka kutjupa-kutjuparringu: How talk has changed in the Western Desert by Inge Kral, Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
'It is important for us to read our own stories and to keep the tradition of our language for our future generations.' — Dereck Harris, Chairman, Ngaanyatjarra Council'In the Time of their Lives is a wonderful book that honours the extraordinary heritage and historical trajectory of Western Desert (Ngaa ...Show more
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England.'Weir's history books are as gripping as novels' The TimesMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies - yet, as Alison Weir shows in this group biography, many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Age ...Show more
The Girl Prince Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax by Danell Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A new look at a revolutionary writer, a diverse imperial city, and a controversial trick on the Royal Navy.In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading as an Abyssinian prince, the young writer and her ...Show more
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, from Europe to the Antipodes, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Tra ...Show more