The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000BCE - 1492CE by Simon Schama
$27.99 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: very good
It is a story like no other- an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"With a foreword by Richard Flanagan Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize 'A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people' —Tim Flannery Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a k ...Show more
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: IV | Reading Level: very good
In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a ...Show more
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked t ...Show more
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
A thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause that came to galvanize countless individuals across Europe and the United States- freedom for Greece. Mark Mazower's wonderful new book recreate ...Show more
Prehistoric Australasia: Visions of Evolution and Extinction by Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, John Long, Trevor H. Worthy
$99.99 AUD
Category: General History
For most of the past 300 million years, the world's continents were interlinked as the supercontinents Pangaea and then Gondwana. Around 50 million years ago, Australia tore itself free from Antarctica to become the huge, splendidly isolated island it is today. Over time, its creatures began to evolve i ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the highly acclaimed story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land – a unique window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by one of our master storytellers. ‘How to sum up this story? It’ ...Show more
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Henry David Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts-part social experiment, part spiritual quest-is an enduringly influential American classic.In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrica ...Show more
Homeland Heroes - From Australian Disasters Heroes Are Born by Mal Walden
$25.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Australia's favourite newsman, Mal Walden, continues his theme of unique Australian stories with Homeland Heroes. This is a tribute to those who have demonstrated incredible bravery and self-sacrifice in the face of overwhelming odds. Out of disasters, heroes are born. Homeland Heroes pays tribute to o ...Show more
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading’ - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantag ...Show more
Qantas: The Flying Kangaroo by Neil Montagnana-Wallace
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
No symbol better conveys the intrepid spirit of Australia than the flying kangaroo. Whether it's glimpsed on a red-eye flight to an interstate business meeting, before leaving for adventure or holidays, or when longing to return home, that sweep of red defines air travel in Australia.Qantas has always b ...Show more
A History of Christianity - The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it h ...Show more