The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
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Category: History
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
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Category: History
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare de ...Show more
Fallen: George Mallory: The Man, The Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy by Mick Conefrey
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Category: History
On 6 June, 1924 George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Two days later they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards, but after that they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down no one knows.In ...Show more
Egyptian Mythology: The Gods, Heroes, Monsters and Legends of Ancient Egypt by ARIEL SLICK
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Category: History
Immerse yourself in the dark and complex mythology of Ancient Egypt. Alongside the mummies and the great treasure-filled burial chambers of the Pyramids are the many gods, heroes, monsters and legends that defined their universe. Atum, the first being -- who then begat Nut, the sky goddess and Geb, the ...Show more
Old Glory - A Voyage down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban
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Category: History | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the asto ...Show more
Greek Ancient Origins: Stories of People and Civilization by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: History | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
A striking companion volume to Greek Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Ancient Greek culture, from its tribal beginnings to its foundational impact on modern life. Gorgeous Collector's Edition. The period of the first Ancient Greek peoples, the Mycenean civilization, from the 1700s BCE ...Show more
The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments by Adrian Bliss
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Category: History
History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the renaissance ma ...Show more
Arcadian Days: Gods, Women and Men from Greek Myth by JOHN SPURLING
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Category: History
In a new companion volume to Arcadian Nights, the lifelong classicist and award-winning novelist brilliantly recasts five Greek myths of legendary male-female pairings. The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of Ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pr ...Show more
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler - How War Made Them, And How They Made War by Phillips Payson O'Brien
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Category: History
If we want to understand military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.In THE STRATEGISTS, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien delves deep into the psyches of five of the most impactful leaders in modern history - Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Roosevelt - and their respective strat ...Show more
Terra Nova: Ambition, Jealousy and Simmering Rivalry in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration by Harrison Christian
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Category: History
‘A riveting account about Scott of Antarctica and the machinations of his demise. Of the food depots that were diminished and the rescue that never came.’ Peter Hillary, mountaineer and explorer For a long time it seemed Antarctica would remain the sole holdout in a nearly fully explored world. The app ...Show more
Arcadian Nights: Gods, Heroes and Monsters from Greek Myth by JOHN SPURLING
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Category: History
The legends of five great Greek heroes are thrillingly reimagined for modern readers by the lifelong classicist and award-winning playwright and historical novelist. Ancient as they are, the Greek myths still resonate at the core of our literature and culture, and may well reveal more about human nature ...Show more
Roman Ancient Origins: Stories Of People and Civilisation by J. K. JACKSON
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Ancient Rome began as a village of humble dwellings on the Palatine and grew to be one of the mightiest and most successful empires of human history, before collapsing in the West under invasions of barbarian nations attracted by Rome's wealth and land, over a thousand year ...Show more