Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo; Patricia Welch (Foreword by); James B. Harris (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edowaga Rampo's best stories—bizarre and blood-curdling expeditions into the fantastic, the perverse, and the strange, in a marvelous homage to Rampo's literary "mentor," Edgar Allan Poe.
East Indies: The 200 Year Struggle Between Portugal, the Dutch East India Co. and the English East India Co. for Supremacy in the Eastern Seas by Ian Burnet
$29.95 AUD
Category: Asian
East Indies follows the trade winds, the trade routes, and the port cities across the East Indies and the Orient. High finance, piracy, greed, ambition, double dealing, exploitation all is here. Driven by the search for spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains, and other oriental goods, the Portuguese tr ...Show more
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark
$75.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers 'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there was no limit to the celebrations . . .' There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in E ...Show more
China: A History by John Keay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Reading Level: very good
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist. Most histories of China appear to have been written by sinologists for sinologists. As Chi ...Show more
Superpower Interrupted - The Chinese History of the World by Michael Schuman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian
This history of China as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again." We in the West routinely ask: "What does China want?" The answer is quite simple: the superpower status it al ...Show more
Paper Tiger: Inside the Real China by Xu Zhiyuan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
In PAPER TIGER the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide-ranging series of mini essays on contemporary Chinese society. Xu Zhiyuan describes the many stages upon which China's great transformation is taking place, ...Show more
Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family by Tim Bonyhady
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for the following century. Tim Bonyhady's great-grandparents were leading patrons of the arts in fin de sile V ...Show more
Kohinoor: The Story of the World s Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The Siege of Tsingtao by Fenby Jonathan
$9.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Penguin Orange Classics
Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield
$29.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Presents the story of the Silk Road in its heyday, through the lives of ten of its inhabitants.
Taiheiki a Chronicle of Medieval太平記 by Helen Craig McCullough (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Ser.
An epic saga of samurai warfare in medieval Japan This celebrated literary classic has delighted generations of Japanese. In its pages, you will find a vivid contemporary description of the fourteenth-century intrigues and battles that led to the destruction of the Hojo family, the military overlord ...Show more