Tales of Old Batavia: Treasures from the Big Durian by Kami Ehrich
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tales
The city of Jakarta, today the capital of Indonesia, has had other incarnations and other names, most notably as the regional headquarters of the Dutch East Indies when it was known around the world as Batavia. As the capital of the Netherlands highly unlikely empire in the far east of Asia, Batavia was ...Show more
A Concise History of the United States of America: The Making of the American Nation by Susan-Mary Grant
$56.99 AUD
Category: American | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by dis ...Show more
Armenia Australia and the Great War by Peter Stanley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide. 24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became the Genocide of ...Show more
Young Digger by Anthony Hill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A small boy, an orphan of the First World War, wanders into the Australian airmen's mess in Germany, on Christmas Day in 1918. A strange boy, with an uncertain past and an extraordinary future, he became a mascot for the air squadron and was affectionately named 'Young Digger'. And in one of the most un ...Show more
Bad Medicine by Terry Ledgard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
"Terry Ledgard is no stranger to mischief and adventure. Having survived childhood in outback Australia, he joined the Army and rose through the ranks to become an SAS medic in Afghanistan. As he endured explosive action, blood-curdling trauma and gut-wrenching humanitarian aid missions, he found the mo ...Show more
Catherine the Great : Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
A reconstruction of the 18th-century empress's life that includes coverage of such topics as her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.
Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey Through a City's Poor and Bohemian Past by Luc Sante
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white facades, discreet traffic and well-mannered exchanges. But there was another Paris, hidden from view and virtually extinct today - the Paris of the working and criminal classes that shaped the city over the ...Show more
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was bound ...Show more
This is America: A National Treasury by Miroslav Sasek; Hutton Wilkinson (Foreword by)
$37.99 AUD
Category: American
After the overwhelming success of the first collection of abridged versions of M. Sasek's most popular children's travel guides, This is the World, this new volume will focus on all of the most important cities and sites within the United States. With their mid-century modern, retro illustration ...Show more
The Romanov's: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murd ...Show more
Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighbourhood, forging relationships with ordinary people who see a brighter future in the city's sl ...Show more
Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance: A True Story by Banjo Woorunmurra, Howard Pedersen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
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