Terrible Maps Hilarious Maps for a Ridiculous World by Terrible Maps
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
The joys of the world, one terrible map at a time – this is the ultimate gift book for the budding geographer or anyone who wants to have a laugh. Ever wondered about the average jean colour across the United States? Or what ‘pedestrians’ look like in Denmark? What unites Brokenwind, Upton Snodsbury and ...Show more
Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the music of the camps to the ears of the world at last by Francesco Lotoro
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Italian pianist and composer Francesco Lotoro has been on a lifelong quest to find the music written by the inmates of concentration camps during the Second World War. Lost Music of the Holocaust movingly pieces together the human stories of those whose only solace during their imprisonment was their mu ...Show more
A Short History of Russia by Mark Galeotti
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
An essential short history of Russia by acclaimed writer and expert Mark Galeotti, taking us from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, to the Russian Revolution, the fall of the USSR and the rise of Vladimir Putin - and updated to include the road to the Ukrainian war.'Fascinating... One of the mo ...Show more
Symbols of Australia: Uncovering the stories behind the myths by Richard White (Editor); Melissa Harper (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia is a land of symbols. The Southern Cross. The Sydney Opera House. The kangaroo. Vegemite. But what do they actually mean? Where do national symbols come from and what makes them popular? Why are some symbols so hotly contested? Does Australia have more than its fair share?Symbols of Australia ...Show more
Mudlarking - Lost and Found on the River Thames by Lara Maiklem
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Enchanting' SUNDAY TIMES ... 'Driven by curiosity, freighted with mystery and tempered by chance, wonders gleam from every page' MELISSA HARRISON ... 'Brilliant. No one has looked at these odd corners since Sherlock Holmes' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ... 'Fascinating. There is nothing that Maiklem does not know ...Show more
The Vanished Land: Disappearing dynasties of Victoria's Western District by Richard Zachariah
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons.This melancholy exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by di ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a livi ...Show more
Mutiny on the Bounty: A Saga of Sex, Sedition, Mayhem and Mutiny (HB) by Peter FitzSimons
$39.99 AUD
$49.99 (20% off)
Category: History
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plant ...Show more
The Irish Difference - The Story of Ireland's 400-Year Journey to Independence by Fergal Tobin
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A fascinating and entertaining investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbors, by a respected Irish historian. For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that, over time, sugges ...Show more
The Kelly Gang - Or: Outlaws of the Wombat Ranges by George Wilson Hall; Tom Thompson (Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
The Kelly Gang: Or, The Outlaws of the Wombat Ranges was produced by George Wilson Hall, the owner of the Mansfield Guardian in 1879. It is the first and rarest book on Ned Kelly, there being only four copies known to exist, with none in private hands. Hall was close to several informants and appears to ...Show more
The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In an age of fake news and half-truths, the radical potential of democracy is more important than ever, as this nimble, illuminating history by a celebrated political theorist reveals.From its beginnings in Syria-Mesopotamia - and not Athens - to its role in fomenting revolutionary fervour in France and ...Show more
Bloodlands - Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
"In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow.In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields today s Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast an ave ...Show more