One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
$28.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Bryson Ser.
In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. It was the summer tha ...Show more
The Great Halifax Explosion - A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism by John U. Bacon
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The riveting, tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that emerged from the ashes, from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author John U. BaconAfter steaming out of New York ...Show more
Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Bataviais the greatest story in Australia?s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mu ...Show more
Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikotter
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. "The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that follow ...Show more
Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History by Rodgers Nigel
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
The legacy of the ancient Greeks has shaped our world. Classical Greece's military prowess, political sophistication and cultural innovations continue to influence modern society. The first half of the book focuses on political and military history, from Mycenae and the Golden Age of Athens to the campa ...Show more
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today by Simon Morrison
$28.99 NZD
Category: History
In this "incredibly rich" (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage. A critical triumph, Simon Morrison's "sweeping and authoritative" (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet's magnif ...Show more
The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' DAILY MAIL 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' OBSERVER From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could ...Show more
The Travels : Penguin Classics designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith by Marco Polo
$21.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics
A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Ku ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a cl ...Show more
Air Disasters of the World by Xavier Waterkeyn
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
Even after a century of commercial air travel, and in spite of the tens of thousands of safe plane trips taken every day, air disasters continue to fascinate. In this gripping book, Xavier Waterkeyn explores more than 200 notable air crashes, including bizarre accidents, hijackings and tales of miraculo ...Show more
Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds - New Evidence of Ancient Secrets by Frank Joseph
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
In a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea - Plato, 360 B.C. Ever since Plato first pondered the existence of Atlantis, the truth behind this infamous sunken city has captured the world. Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds is the most up-to-date ...Show more