Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world by Peter Moore
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. Britain was consumed by the impulse for grand p ...Show more
A Tudor Christmas by Alison Weir; Siobhan Clarke
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking 'to drive the cold winter away?. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and 'disguisings?, when even the king and queen dressed up in costume to f ...Show more
OUR GREAT HEARTED MEN 5 COPY PACK by Brune, Peter
$249.95 AUD
Category: History
Pack contains: 5 x 9781460756515 Our Great Hearted Men
The Greeks: A Global History by Prof Roderick Beaton
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The epic, fascinating history of one of the world's great cultures. 'A wonderful book.' - Peter Frankopan 'A masterpiece' - Gregory Nagy, Harvard University 'Remarkable' - Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules-For Now The way we think. The way we learn. The entertainment we seek. The way we are gov ...Show more
Elizabeth I: Virgin Queen? by Philippa Jones
$19.98 AUD
Category: History
Was the 'Virgin Queen' image just Tudor propaganda? Historian Philippa Jones, author of the acclaimed The Other Tudors, challenges the many myths and truths surrounding Elizabeth's life and reveals the passionate woman behind the scenes. Virgin Queen is the name for which the powerful and fearless daugh ...Show more
Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I. 'We are a prince from a line of princes.' Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin Queen', uses new research to present a fresh interpretation of Elizabeth as a queen who saw herself prima ...Show more
The Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
$19.98 AUD
Category: History
The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education of women was minimal a ...Show more
London's Truly Strangest Tales by Tom Quinn (Coventry University)
$19.98 AUD
Category: History
More extraordinary but true stories from London's history. In this fascinating follow-up to his bestselling London's Strangest Tales, Tom Quinn makes a further foray into the weirder side of the capital, bringing us a splendiforous collection of bizarre-but-true stories that explore a thousand years of ...Show more
White Cargo by Stuart Woods
$17.98 AUD
Category: History
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series delivers a riveting novel of one man's desperate war against the richest and most ruthless drug cartel in the world. Tech millionaire Wendell "Cat" Catledge has taken two years off to sail around the world with his wife and eighteen ...Show more
Into the Black by Rowland White
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built - the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes of which Chu ...Show more
Shackled by Chris Turney
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
"In 2013, Australian earth scientist Chris Turney led an ambitious expedition to Antarctica. It promised so much u discovery, history, adventure u but came with great risk. The story of Turney's ship, the Shokalskiy, and the plight of the 71 people on board was broadcast around the world. We watched, li ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Bryson
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more