Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization by Roy Scranton
$27.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: City Lights Open Media
"In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History "Roy Scranton's Learning ...Show more
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public c ...Show more
Revolution: The History of England (Volume IV) by Peter Ackroyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the ...Show more
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
In the tradition of Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world. Th ...Show more
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda by Eric Bogle
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"But the band played 'Waltzing Matilda' when we stopped to bury our slain. We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs; then we started all over again." Eric Bogle's famous and familiar Australian song about the Battle of Gallipoli explores the futility of war with haunting power. Now Bruce Whatley's ev ...Show more
Scurvy : How a Surgeon, a Mariner & a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail by Stephen R. Bown
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
In the days of the tall ships, one dreaded foe was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses combined. Cruelly culling sailors and stunting maritime enterprise from Vasco da Gama to Sir Francis Drake, this plague of the seas was scurvy. Countless mariners perished ...Show more
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
With a new commentary by David Carpenter "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his eq ...Show more
Beersheba Centenary Edition: Travels through a forgotten Australian victory by Paul Daley
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A hundred years ago in October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade participated in what is now regarded as the last great successful cavalry charge. Waving bayonets overhead in the dying light, they raced across six kilometres of exposed ground in Palestine, surprising the well-entren ...Show more
The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World by Edith Hall
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidasâe(tm)s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But who were the ancient Greeks? An ...Show more
1956 - The World in Revolt by Simon Hall
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Vibrantly and sympathetically told, this is the story of one remarkable year - a capsule history of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the world. "Vivid, powerful and panoramic...I loved it." (Dominic Sandbrook). 1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All ac ...Show more
Menzies Era by John Howard
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An assessment of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, by John Howard, Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, this is a significant, unique and fascinating history of the Menzies era - a time that laid the foundations for modern Australia. 'Engaging and revealing .. ...Show more
Jack the Ripper by OTTO PENZLER
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The predatory ritual, the escalating savegery of the crimes, the grisly trophies taken from his victim's bodies, the games played with his pursuers, the cannibalism: Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London's East End during the autumn of 1888 casts a long shadow. Many have murdered more, but few hav ...Show more