Crusades : Their History and Myths Revealed by Michael Paine
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Illustrated Histories
The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Inventions - Discover the True Stories Behind the World's 64 Most Overlooked Objects by Laura Hetherington; Rebecca Pryce (Illustrator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Illustrated Histories Ser.
The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Inventions uncovers the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origins behind the world's most overlooked innovations!Nobody knows the backstories behind our most taken-for-granted inventions, like credit cards, egg cartons, windshield wipers, and breakfast s ...Show more
Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the Natural World by JULIA ROTHMAN
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Julia Rothman Ser.
See the world in a whole new way Acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman combines art and science in this exciting and educational guide to the structure, function, and personality of the natural world. Explore the anatomy of a jellyfish, the inside of a volcano, monarch butterfly migration, how sunsets wor ...Show more
The Viking Warrior - The Norse Raiders Who Terrorized Medieval Europe by Ben Hubbard
$70.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Landscape History Ser.
Beginning in 789 CE, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked settlements and invaded the Atlantic coast of Europe and the British Isles. They looted and enslaved their enemies, terrorizing all whom they encountered. But that is only part of their story. Sailing their famous longboats, they discovered Ice ...Show more
The Atlas of Atlases: Exploring the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them by Philip Parker
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
A lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them. This beautiful book is a lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them. Atlases are books that changed the course of history. Pored over by ...Show more
The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It by Stephen Sears
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
The Library of America's ambitious four-volume series continues with this volume that traces events from January 1862 to January 1863, an unforgettable portrait of the crucial year that turned a secessionist rebellion into a war of emancipation. Including eleven never-before- published pieces, here are ...Show more
A Little History of Archaeology by Brian Fagan
$20.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is a ...Show more
A Little History of the World by E H Gombrich
$17.00 AUD
$24.99 (31% off)
Category: History | Series: Little Histories
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to imme ...Show more
A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories Ser.
This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infecti ...Show more
Lonely Planet Kids Myths and Legends of the World by Alli Brydon, Alli Brydon
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lonely Planet Kids Ser.
Curious reader-- open your mystical map and get ready to travel through time with these 21 extraordinary stories of daring and deceit, reward and punishment. Meet gods, goddesses, serpents, talking fish and clever spiders. Cavort with sea nymphs, mystical women, terrifying beasts and volcano people as y ...Show more
The Sumerians - Lost Civilizations by Paul Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urb ...Show more
Spanish Armada by Colin Martin; Geoffrey Parker
$25.00 AUD
$33.99 (26% off)
Category: History | Series: Mandolin Ser.
At the end of July 1588, Philip II's Armada of 130 ships set sail against England. Within a month they were condemned to defeat. The authors spent 13 years reassessing the profusion of untapped documents, diaries and private papers lying forgotten in Spanish and Dutch archives. This material has been au ...Show more