The Great Imperial Hangover - How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'An excellent read.' -- Robert D. Kaplan. For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face tod ...Show more
Saga Land: The Island Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler, Kari Gislason
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who se ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Silk Roads: A New History of the World: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far ...Show more
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice by Judith Mackrell
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Abandoned unfinished and left to rot on Venice's Grand Canal, 'il palazzo non finito' was once an unloved guest among the aristocrats of Venetian architecture. Yet in the 20th century it played host to three passionate and unconventional women who would take the city by storm. The staggeringly wealthy M ...Show more
The History of the World in Fifty Dogs by Mackenzi Lee; Petra Eriksson (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
An illustrated collection of stories about dogs that knew how to sit, stay, and witness history Most dog lovers know Fido and Laika, but how about Martha, Paul McCartney's Old English Sheepdog? Or Peritas, Alexander the Great's trusted canine companion? As long as there have been humans, those humans ha ...Show more
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes by Susan Whitfield
$100.00 AUD
Category: History
As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network of ancient trade routes - which spanned the vastness of the steppe, vertiginous mountain ranges, fertile river plains and forbidding deserts across the continen ...Show more
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'A charming, absorbing history that takes us on a journey from the silk roads to sportswear, from ruffs to spacesuits . . . I devoured this quietly feminist book' SUNDAY TIMES All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen ...Show more
Silliness - A Serious History by Peter Timms
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Silliness is to be savoured. It exposes the cracks in our reasoning, raising a gleeful two-finger salute to convention and common sense. In a world awash with stupidity and cruel politics, silliness is childish, anarchic, mischievous, rude and sometimes shocking. But it's not new. This delightful yet i ...Show more
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remote ...Show more
On a Wing and a Prayer: The Race that Stopped the World by Diane Websdale-Morrissey
$33.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Race that Stopped the World
In 1934, Melbourne's Lord Mayor announced a London-to-Melbourne air race to celebrate his city's centenary. The audacious plan captured imaginations across the globe: newspapers and magazines everywhere were filled with it; the world's pilots scrambled to get sponsorship; and the organisers scrambled t ...Show more