More Letters of Note : Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
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Category: History
More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters. These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard Burton's fa ...Show more
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as ...Show more
The White Divers of Broome: The True Story of a Fatal Experiment by John Bailey
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Category: History
The True Story of a Fatal Experiment1912 Broome was as much 'Asian' as 'Australian'. The town thrived on the hugely profitable, but extremely dangerous, pearl shell industry. It was a frontier town where racial tensions simmered. This is a gripping narrative that echoes with many of the same fears and h ...Show more
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne
$36.00 AUD
Category: History
This stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West was a major New York Times bestseller. In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche ...Show more
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
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Category: History
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her. At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Cath ...Show more
Dark Paradise Norfolk Island by Robert Macklin
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Category: History
Aren't remote South Pacific islands supposed to be paradise? Perhaps, from a distance, Norfolk Island looks a peaceful place lush with tall pines. But look closer and that idyllic facade is shattered. For all of the 220 years we have known it, Norfolk's story has been one of darkness, pain, rage and hor ...Show more
Powers And Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
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Category: History
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. 'An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of history with elegance and panache' Dan Carlin, Hardcore History'Dan Jones is in a class of his own ... Read this b ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
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Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today. Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or s ...Show more
Australia's Natural Disasters by Richard Whitaker
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Category: History
'Australia’s Natural Disasters' tells many stories of the devastation that nature has wreaked on our wild country and its people. From the agonies of droughts and oods to the shocks of earthquakes and bush fires, Australia is a country famed as much for its ferocious natural hazards as for its rich e ...Show more
The Nine Hundred - The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
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Category: History
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few ...Show more
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
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Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more
The Shortest History of the World by David Baker
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Category: History
A fascinating journey through life, the universe and everythingHow did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're all made from stars? The Shortest History of the World follows the continuum of historical change in the ...Show more