Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A New York Times BestsellerBasis for the movie LincolnOn May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited for the results from the Republican National Convention. Lincoln won, Goodwin demonstrates, because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place ...Show more
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Ever wondered how we got from nothing to something? Or thought about how we can weigh the earth? Or wanted to reach the edge of the universe? Uncover the mysteries of time, space and life on earth in this extraordinary book - a journey from the centre of the planet to the dawn of the dinosaurs, and ever ...Show more
Bedlam - London's Hospital for the Mad by Paul Chambers
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
BETHLEM HOSPITAL is the oldest mental institution in the world, to many famously known as 'Bedlam': a chaotic madhouse that brutalised its patients. Paul Chambers explores the 800-year history of Bethlem and reveals fascinating details of its ambivalent relationship with London and its inhabitants, the ...Show more
Arcadian Days: Gods, Women and Men from Greek Myth by JOHN SPURLING
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In a new companion volume to Arcadian Nights, the lifelong classicist and award-winning novelist brilliantly recasts five Greek myths of legendary male-female pairings. The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of Ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pr ...Show more
Oceans Apart - Stories of Overseas Evacuees in World War Two by Penny Starns
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From May 1940 the Children's Overseas Reception Board began to move children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. The scheme was extremely popular, and over 200,000 applications were made within just four months. In addition, thousands of children were privately evacuated ...Show more
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This infuriated the Dutch, who were determined to cont ...Show more
The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure was never before pub ...Show more
Saints, Angels and Demons - An a-To-Z Guide to the Holy and the Damned by Gary Jansen; Katie Ponder (Illustrator)
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Saints, Angels, and Demons is an illustrated compendium of the fascinating lives and meaningful legacies of nearly 400 iconic figures who have influenced history, religion, literature, and art, throughout the centuries and across the world. From St. Augustine, whose writings helped shape Western cultur ...Show more
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
A STUNNING CELEBRATORY EDITION OF THE SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY, COMPLETE WITH NEW INTRODUCTION AND EPILOGUE: THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY JANE AUSTEN LOVER Readers LOVE Jane Austen at Home: 'A "tour de force" which should be in the reading list of anyone who has either read the books or watched ...Show more
Mozart in Italy by Jane Glover
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captured the hearts of northern Europe, but his father Leopold was now determined to conquer Italy. Together, they made three visits there the last when Mozart was seventeen, all vividly recounted here by acclaimed conductor Jane ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own'. In an innovative and engaging narrative of eve ...Show more
Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation by Kenneth W. Harl
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And, as Kenneth W. Harl ill ...Show more