The Light Ages -A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky. In this book, we walk the path of medieval science wi ...Show more
The Lone Protestor: Am Fernando in Australia and Europe by Fiona Paisley (Griffith University, Australia)
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
The late 1920s saw an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House, cloaked in tiny skeletons, Anthony Martin Fernando condemned the failure of British rule in his country. Fernando is believed to be the first Aboriginal person to prote ...Show more
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by Countess of Carnarvon
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon In November 1922, a new door to the ancient past was opened. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun would be the most astonishing of the young century, revealing the ruler’s sarcophagus and a treasure trove of artefacts: chariots and model boats, b ...Show more
The King's Assassin : The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I by Benjamin Woolley
$19.98 AUD
Category: History
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain's first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity that the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his ...Show more
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. T ...Show more
In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World by Danielle Clode
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald. When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1775, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disgui ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, ...Show more
Joan of Arc: A History (US HB) by Helen Castor
$12.95 AUD
Category: History
Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would b ...Show more
Females on the Fatal Shore : Australia's Brave Pioneers by Susanna De Vries
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of the lives of 11 significant women who sailed to the colonies in Australia's founding years. Letters and portraits help bring these women to life and describe the dangers and deprivations of pioneering in the 6 colonies that would unite at Federation to form one nation - Australia. T ...Show more
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
"This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king, familiar to millions as Longshanks, conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace ( Braveheart ). Edward was born to rule England, but believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of th ...Show more
Signed by hand by National Library of Australia
$19.98 AUD
Category: History
Signed by Hand is a little gem of a book that displays images of a wide variety of autographed items from the National Library of Australia collections. This beautiful book represents and celebrates famous and influential people in Australia's history through sixty-six personal, hand written inscription ...Show more