An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon Defoe
34.99 NZD
Category: World History
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated - and timely - history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. 'Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close' Countri ...Show more
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
40.00 NZD
Category: World History
For many years, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world's most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Him ...Show more
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
39.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
'Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' - Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay ...Show more
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year by James Holland
40.00 NZD
Category: World History
This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history.Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time. That day, over 160,000 British, American an ...Show more
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Brie ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades - Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Successors 1154-1291 by Alison Weir
40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: England's Medieval Queens | Reading Level: near fine
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined ...Show more
Congo by David van Reybrouck
24.99 NZD
Category: World History
Epic yet eminently readable, penetrating and profoundly moving, 'Congo' traces the fate of one of the world's most devastated countries, second only to war-torn Somalia: the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a span of several hundred years and an enormous cast of characters, 'Congo' chronicles the most ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
40.00 NZD
Category: World History
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to term ...Show more
The Great Journeys in History by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
29.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages of discovery from the extraordinary migrations out of Africa by our earliest ancestors to th ...Show more
Forgotten People of the Ancient World by Philip Matyszak
55.00 NZD
Category: World History
The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. While several of these are well known, for all those that have been recorded, many have been unjustly forgotten. Our history is overflowing with different cultures that have all evolved over time, ...Show more
Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology by Ellie Mackin Roberts
32.99 NZD
Category: World History
Goddesses, monsters, humans and the semi-divine - whether courageous or meek, gruesome or irresistible, female characters are ever present on the peripheries of the great Greek myths, but rarely do they take centre stage. Their time has finally come to act as protagonists in their own stories. Heroines ...Show more