Valkyrie - The Women of the Viking World by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
Valkyries- the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war o to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs an ...Show more
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7000 years before Christ, and ending with the Sino-American trade war that we are in right now. Taking history in great strides, More illustrates ...Show more
Island Dreams - Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
An exploration of isolation and connectedness based on thirty years of travel, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being and Empire Antarctica. In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psycholo ...Show more
The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands by Alastair Bonnett
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A fascinating exploration of new and disappearing islands around the world, by the author of Off the Map.
Mythologica - An Encyclopedia of Gods, Monsters and mortals from ancient Greece by Stephen P. Kershaw
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An illustrated encyclopedia of Greek mythology like no other, Mythologica features startlingly beautiful and exquisitely otherworldly portraits of mythological characters in eye-popping color from artist Victoria Topping and authoritative text from Classics scholar and Greek mythology expert Dr. Stephen ...Show more
Voices from the Past - A Year of Great Quotations - and the Stories from History That Inspired Them by W B Marsh
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story.
Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World by Thomas Harding
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'I absolutely love this book.' TRACY ANN OBERMAN 'Endlessly fascinating and hard to put down. I read it all in one sitting, enjoying the colour and grandeur ... Full of character and characters, this is a tour de force.' JULIA NEUBERGER 'An impressively researched account of one of Britain's most well-k ...Show more
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth. In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found. This is its story. 'Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson Michael Palin - Monty Python ...Show more
'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms by Naoko Abe
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by a jingoistic political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman Collingwood Ingram, known as 'Cherry' for his defining obsession, was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. A ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: the Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in the War and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and ...Show more
First to Fight - The Polish War 1939 by Roger Moorhouse
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'This deeply researched, very well-written and penetrating book will be the standard work on the subject for many years to come'- Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill- Walking with Destiny The Second World War began on 1 September 1939, when German tanks, trucks and infantry crossed the Polish border, an ...Show more
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recen ...Show more