The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
The Silent Moon - The True Story of Frank the Poet Geoffrey Stewart by Geoffrey Stewart
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Untold True Story of a famous Irish/Australian Convict anti-hero. The story creates a new Genre of True Historical Fiction. The story travels through an Irish uprising, Convict treatment and Victorian Gold Rush era. It ends with the first Australian Gold Escort Robbery and the disappearance of the s ...Show more
Arcadian Days: Gods, Women and Men from Greek Myth by JOHN SPURLING
$27.99 AUD
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
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Destruction [Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt] by Lynne Olson
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The fascinating story of the feisty French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time- fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to sa ...Show more
She and Her Pretty Friend: The hidden history of Australian women who love women by Danielle Scrimshaw
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
A joyous look at the history of lesbian and bisexual women in Australia - from colonisation to convict times, through suffrage and liberation to today.Throughout history, women's relationships have been downgraded and diminished. Instead of lovers, they are documented as particularly close friends; the ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
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$47.95 (24% off)
Category: History | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about ...Show more
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties by Meredith Burgmann, Nadia Wheatley
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Sixties -- an era of protest,free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white footage -- marked a turning point for change. A time when radicals found their voices and used them. While the initial trigger for protest was ...Show more
Heiresses : The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
$26.99 AUD
$34.99 (22% off)
Category: History
A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress – glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating – from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. 'Life is less sad with money', said Emerald Cunard; Barbara Hutton was the 'Poor Little Rich Girl', but which is true? Laura Thompson explores the phenomen ...Show more
Southern Signals: Stories of innovation, challenge and triumph in Australia’s communication history by Hugh Tranter
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia’s use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of Australia’s history. From the time the First Fleet tra ...Show more