Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Asian
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia's History by Sunil Amrith
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Asia's history has been shaped by its waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas--and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows ...Show more
A Brief History of China by Jonathan Clements
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had not fully recovered--until now. China's modern resurgence as the world' ...Show more
Koh-i-Noor by Anita Anand William Dalrymple
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world.On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old maharaja of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a public cer ...Show more
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Reading Level: near fine
The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. They changed the world. The Mongols, today?s descendants of Genghis Khan, see them as ancestors. Their rise cemented Chinese unity and inspired the first Great Wall. Their heir ...Show more
The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people by Michael Wood
$59.99 AUD
Category: Asian
China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential for reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.China is the oldest livi ...Show more
Secrets of the Samurai by Westbrook, Adele
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Secrets of the Samurai is the definitive study of the martial arts of feudal Japan-explaining in detail the weapons, techniques, strategies, and principles of combat that made the Japanese warrior a formidable foe. Beginning with a panoramic survey of the tumultuous early struggles of warlords contendin ...Show more
Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan by Ihara Saikaku
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tuttle Classics
"Five charming novellas which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." The New Yorker First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary class ...Show more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life ...Show more
The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
A pacy history of China that can be read in an afternoon, but will transform your perspective for a lifetime. From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years. Chinese hi ...Show more