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Bees and Their Keepers - In Religion, Revolution and Evolution by Frank Perry (Translator); Lotte Möller
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift. Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Möller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees' natural order and ha ...Show more
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope; Justin Scheck
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and WME Chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the Crown Prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passi ...Show more
By Steppe, Desert, & Ocean : The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
$46.95 AUD
Category: World History
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols ...Show more
The Windsor Diaries: 1940 - 45 by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
The Windsor Diaries are the never-before-seen diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who lived alongside the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War. Alathea's home life was an unhappy one. Her parents had separated and so during the war she was sent to live wi ...Show more
Curious Voyages - A Collection of Astoundingly True Tales by Andrew Murray (Illustrator)
$39.95 AUD
Category: World History
Over thousands of yearsthe world was wide with wind-powered boats, one of man's mostbeautiful constructions, andsailors had to strugglein theage-old game of Man vsSea. This collection of tales isnot a history of sail, it's avoyage through centuries of curious sailing adventures.
Imperial Mud - The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England.
Maiden Voyages - Women and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel by Siân Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some trav ...Show more
The Great Imperial Hangover - How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
'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 to ...Show more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
'An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.' - Paul Theroux. Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies and ...Show more
The Madman's Library - The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$45.00 AUD
Category: World History
From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt do ...Show more
1968: Those Were the Days by Brian Williams
$37.99 AUD
Category: World History
A compendium of milestone stories and watershed events in popular culture, politics, and news at home and abroad from 1968, including the Assassination of Martin Luther King, an introduction of the Ford Escort, Apollo 8 and the first orbit of the moon, the Viet Cong Offensive, Bobby Kennedy getting shot ...Show more
A Brief History of Puzzles: 120 of the World's Most Baffling Brainteasers from the Sphinx to Sudoku by William Hartston
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
A mindbending history of the greatest puzzles of all time, by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.
