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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603 by Simon Schama
$39.95 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme of British history seen from the twentieth century is endurance ...Show more
A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
$44.95 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
'While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to "The Fate of the Empire", set the tone and agenda for the final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain, her people and her past. Spanning two centuries, crossing the breadth of the empire and cover ...Show more
A History of Britain - Volume 1 (At the Edge of the World, 3000 BC-AD 1603) by Simon Schama
$49.95 AUD
Category: British
At the Edge of the World: 3000BC-AD1603 In the first of SchamaÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs epic trilogy, he takes us back to the beginnings of British history and the creation of a national identity. The great and wicked are all he ...Show more
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
$39.95 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
'Great Britain? What was that?' asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. This volume, "The British Wars", is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life, faith and thought from 1603 t ...Show more
Art by Simon Schama
$7.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sen ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
$27.99 AUD
Category: European
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of ...Show more
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
$29.95 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: very good
The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history publishing. "Monumental...provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to i ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
$59.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries by Rebecca Abrams (Editor); Cesar Merchan-Hamann (Editor); Simon Schama (Foreword by)
$69.99 AUD
Category: Galleries
*This book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. *Lavishly illustrated essays by experts in the field bring to life the outstanding works contained in the collections. *A fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social h ...Show more
Rembrandt\'s Eyes by Simon Schama
$65.00 AUD
Category: Artists | Series: Allen Lane History S.
In this biography, Simon Schama combines a mastery of the painter\\\'s life and times with sympathy for Rembrandt\\\'s character as it found both expression and transformation in his art.
Rough Crossings by Simon Schama
$24.95 AUD
Category: American
"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires ...Show more