The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality by Hanno Sauer
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
A grand, sweeping history of the evolution of morality across the entire existence of humankind For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs. Moralit ...Show more
Greek Myths: A New Retelling, with drawings by Chris Ofili by Charlotte Higgins
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A major new retelling of the Greek myths for a new generation, with original drawings by world-renowned artist Chris Ofili.In this spellbinding new collection, Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time. Here are myths of the creation, of Heracles and Theseus and Perseu ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global history, natural history, and future ...Show more
A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World by González Macías
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. They have been the homes and workplaces of men and women whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas. Yet while that way of life fades away, as the lights go out and the buildings crumble, we s ...Show more