The Tasman Map: Biography of a Map: Abel Tasman, the Dutch East India Company and the First Dutch Discoveries of Australia by Ian Burnet
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Why is the Tasman Map important? This story of the first Dutch voyages to discover Australia is set against the background of the struggle of the newly formed Dutch Republic to gain its independence from the Kingdom of Spain and the struggle of the Dutch East India Company for trade supremacy in the Eas ...Show more
Nefertiti's Face: The Creation of an Icon by Joyce Tyldesley
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
More than three thousand years ago a sculptor working in the royal city of Amarna carved a limestone bust of an Egyptian queen. The queen was Nefertiti, consort of the 'heretic pharaoh' Akhenaten. Plastered and painted, Nefertiti's bust depicted an extraordinarily beautiful woman. However, Akhenaten's r ...Show more
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphori ...Show more
The Ship of Dreams by Gareth Russell
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a tragedy we think we know to explore an era of seismic change. With new research and previously unseen first-hand accounts, Gareth Russell peers through the most famous porthol ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria by Max Adams
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The magisterial biography of Oswald Whiteblade, exiled prince of Northumbria, who returned in blood and glory to reclaim his birthright. A charismatic leader, a warrior whose prowess in battle earned him the epithet Whiteblade, an exiled prince who returned to claim his birthright, the inspiration for T ...Show more
Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
From the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, comes this concise survey of Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the 11th century to the present day. Stone deftly conducts the reader through this story, from the arrival o ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESelected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sundayand Observer 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The TimesThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the ...Show more
Forgotten Royal Women by Erin Lawless
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Great women are hidden behind great men, or so they say, and no man is greater than the king. For centuries, royal aunts, cousins, sisters and mothers have watched history unfold from the shadows, their battlefields the bedchamber or the birthing room, their often short lives remembered only through the ...Show more
The Famine Irish: Emigration and the Great Hunger by Ciaran Reilly
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
From a range of leading academics and historians, this collection of essays examines Irish emigration during the Great Famine of the 1840s. From the mechanics of how this was arranged to the fate of the men, women and children who landed on the shores of the nations of the world, this work provides a re ...Show more
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, as Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the f ...Show more
History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Day (3rd Ed) by Adam Hart-Davis
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
Bringing the people and events of history to life, History makes the past accessible and relevant. Featuring the important events and figures that have shaped the present, from the very origins of humanity to key contemporary issues, such as the development of the internet and social media. It reveals c ...Show more