The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now--as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East. "All roads used to lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing." So argues P ...Show more
Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse by Graham Hancock
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returned with the sequel to his seminal work filled with compl ...Show more
The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: history of the Americas
"The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the most spectacular the world has ever seen. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked, and architect and a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the chief builder of ...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
Men Without Country: The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famous mutiny in history when the crew rise up against Captain William Bligh, with accusations of food restrictions and unfair punishments. Bligh's remarkable journey back to safety is well documented, but the fates of the mutinous men remain ...Show more
Explorations
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Category: History
A wonderful selection of the best photographs from the Royal Geographical Society, with more than 400 pictures taken by explorers/photographers in remote parts of the world from the 1860s to the 1930s with details of expeditions and explorers.
Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings by Owen Hatherley
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
"In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies." (Will Self). During the course of the twentieth c ...Show more
Picturing the Pacific: Joseph Banks and the Shipboard Artists of Cook and Flinders by James Taylor
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings--a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see. Today these works represe ...Show more
A World on Edge - The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age by Daniel Schönpflug
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A World on Edge reveals Europe in 1918, left in ruins by World War I. With the end of hostilities, a radical new start seems not only possible, but essential, even unavoidable. Unorthodox ideas light up the age like the comets that have recently passed overhead: new politics, new societies, new art and ...Show more
Flying Boats - Air Travel in the Golden Age by Charles Woodley
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
From the early 1930s until the end of that decade long-distance air travel was the preserve of the flying-boat, which transported well-heeled passengers in ocean-liner style and comfort across the oceans. By the end of World War Two things had changed. The development of large landplane bombers had brou ...Show more
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a uniq ...Show more
The Directory of Flags: A guide to flags from around the world by Charlotte Greig
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
For thousands of years, flags have been used to identify countries and cultures, people and places. Today, the flags of the world can still provide a key to discovering national identity and history of each and every country in the international community. Presented in a neat directory format, this book ...Show more