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Great Cities Through Travelers' Eyes by Peter Furtado (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
This entertaining new anthology includes travelers' tales from thirty-eight cities spread over six continents, ranging from Beijing to Berlin, Cairo to Chicago, and Rio to Rome. The volume features commentators across the millennia, including the great travelers of ancient times, such as Greek geograph ...Show more
Great Cities Through Travellers' Eyes by Furtado, Peter
$24.99 AUD
Category: General History
Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those at home. The thirty-eight cities covered in this entertaining anthology of travellers' tales are spread over six continents, ranging from Beijing to Berlin, ...Show more
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged by Peter Furtado
$19.99 AUD
Category: General History
National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a 'self-portrait' of hi ...Show more
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History by Peter Furtado
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
When the great Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta visited Damascus in 1348 it was in the throes of a great plague which killed half of the population. Even so, he reported 'God lightened their affliction; for the number of deaths in a single day at Damascus did not attain 2,000, while in Cairo it reached the ...Show more
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today by FURTADO, PETER
$49.99 AUD
Category: General History
Whether it's because their rhetoric--"liberty, fraternity, equality"--articulates those ideals to which we most aspire, or because we are shocked by the destructive forces that are unleashed when social conventions break down, revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. And while all r ...Show more
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