Ned Kelly by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boy?s brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home? Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a crusader against oppression and discrimination? Was he even ...Show more
Simpson's Donkey by Peter Stanley
$14.99 AUD
Category: History
Based on the most famous animal in Australian history, Simpon's Donkey tells the story of the donkey's service in Gallipoli where for three weeks he helped Simpson carry wounded men down to Anzac Cove. Author Peter Stanley tells his story - in the donkey's own voice - taking the reader on a journey from ...Show more
Century (Mini Edition) by Bruce Bernard
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
Before even opening this award-winning book, you are struck by the sheer physical presence of Century. With 1,224 pages and 1,090 images, this colossal volume offers an informative, intimate and incisive insight into the twentieth century from the very beginning to the very end. Century is an extensive ...Show more
London in the Sixties by Rainer Metzger
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
This beautifully illustrated book paints a multifaceted portrait of sixties London and explores the reasons why it became the epicentre of a cultural boom that resounded around the world and whose echoes can still be heard today. London in the 1960s was the embodiment of everything that was inspirationa ...Show more
Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity by Rebe Taylor
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1908 English gentleman, Ernest Westlake, packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the mo ...Show more
Churchill and Orwell The Fight for Freedom (TP) by Ricks Thomas E
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Spectacle of Skill: Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes; Adam Gopnik (Introduction by)
$79.99 AUD
Category: History
"I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work ...Show more
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared t ...Show more
The Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set ...Show more
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
Hitchens vs Blair : Be it Resolved Religion is a Force for Good in the World by Christopher Hitchens
$14.99 AUD
Category: History
On November 26, 2010, intellectual juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher Hitchens went head-to-head with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the Western world's most openly devout political leaders, on the highly charged topic of religion. Few world leaders have had a greater hand in s ...Show more
The Demon's Brood: The Plantagenet Dynasty That Forged the English Nation by Desmond Seward
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family - from Henry II, to Richard III. Four kings were murdered, two came close to deposition and another was killed in a battle by rebels. Shakespeare wrote plays about six of them, further entrenching them in the National Myth. Based on majo ...Show more