Barcelona - A Thousand Years of the City's Past by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Barcelona, like Spain itself, has in recent years attracted the gaze and fascination of the world. Chosen as the host city for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, the international spotlight will soon focus on this beautiful, two thousand year-old city, furthering Barcelona's hopes for a lasting place on the ...Show more
Celtic Myth and Legend - An A-Z of People and Places by Mike Dixon-Kennedy
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Royalty, warriors, deities, giants, monsters, and wizards of Celtic myth and legend join forces. Travel to enchanted islands, battlefields, standing stones, bustling cities, and other intriguing sites. Hundreds of entries illuminate the culture. Each entry includes a detailed definition, its origin, alt ...Show more
History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World by DK
$65.00 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Discover the world's most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the war of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history's most decisive moments as and when they happen ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
‘Majestic, ambitious’ Literary Review ____________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity and sophistication, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and w ...Show more
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
"A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, p ...Show more
An Imperial Possession : Britain in the Roman Empire by David Mattingly
$100.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
The centuries under which Britain was under Roman occupation have always had a contradictory reputation. Generations of British readers were brought up to approve of the Roman Empire as the model for their own empire, but equally it was embarrassingly clear that within the Roman Empire Britain itself wa ...Show more
The Middle Sea : A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
This is a vast subject - vast in time (from the oldest surviving pyramid which dates from 2686 BC to the Great War of 1914-18); vast in geography (from Gibraltar to Jerusalem); vast in culture, including as it does the civilizations of the Phoenicians, the Ancient Egyptians, Greece, Carthage, Rome, Byza ...Show more
Dr Johnson's London : Life in London 1740-1770 by Liza Picard
$15.00 AUD
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1415: Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer
$50.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionized in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application of justice, he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But what was he really like? Does he deserve to be tho ...Show more
MAYHEW'S LONDON : BEING SELECTIONS FROM 'LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR' by HENRY MAYHEW
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Big Chief Elizabeth : The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America by Giles Milton
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
A riveting historical mystery of Colonial America by the author of "Nathaniel's Nutmeg" In April, 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans, "savages," had made her their weroanza-a word that meant "big chief." The news was received with great joy, both by the ...Show more