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Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates by Eleanor Hogan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
An original and riveting biography of two of the most singular women Australia has ever seen.Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Daisy Bates, dressed in Victorian garb, malnourished and half-blind, camped with Aboriginal people in Wes ...Show more
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority 1788–1853 by Babette Smith
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of outrage at their vulgarity, their depravity and their promiscuity. Babette Smith takes the reader beyond this traditional casting of convict women, looking for evidence of th ...Show more
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano Da Bisticci and the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An exhilarating and untold account of a Florentine bookseller working at the frontiers of human knowledge, and the epochal shift from script to print that defined the Renaissance The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city ...Show more
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
** A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**** A Sunday Times bestseller**'All the history you need to understand why you're so furious, angry and still hopeful about being a woman now' Caitlin MoranWell-behaved women don't make history- difficult women do.Feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory ...Show more
First Victory by Mike Carlton
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into Sydney Harbour in October 1913, a young nation was at peace. Under a year later Australia had gone to war in what was seen as a noble fight for king, country, and Empire. Thousands of young men joined up for the adventure of hav ...Show more
The Great Empires of Asia by Jim Masselos; Jonathan Fenby
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of Europe. How and why did those empires gain such power, and lose it? What legacies did they leave? This major book brings together a team of distinguished his ...Show more
The Coat Route by Meg Lukens Noonan
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In today's world of fast fashion, is there a place for a handcrafted $50,000 coat? To answer that question, Meg Noonan unravels the story of the coat's provenance. Her journey takes readers to the Sydney studio of John Cutler, a fourth-generation tailor who works magic with scissors and thread; to the r ...Show more
Complete Musashi: the Book of Five Rings and Other Works - The Definitive Translations of the Complete Writings of Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai by Miyamoto Musashi; Alexander Bennett (Translator); Graham Sayer (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The culmination of 25 years of research, Alex Bennett's groundbreaking English translation of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings reveals the true meaning of the original work. This piece of writing by famed samurai Musashi (1584-1645) is the single-most influential work on samurai swordsmansh ...Show more
Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection 1815-1840 by Philip G. Dwyer
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner in a dressing-gown just off the Engl ...Show more
Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook to Charles Darwin by Nigel Rigby; Pieter van der Merwe; Glyn Williams
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. Despite his ordinary roots, he rose through the ranks to become a remarkable officer. On May 27, 1768, Cook, then just a Royal Naval lieutenant, took command of HM bark Endeavour. Its voyage of exploration to the Pac ...Show more
Chinese Arms and Armour by Natasha Bennett
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Of all the books published by the Royal Armouries, the Arms and Armour series is the most enduringly popular. Written at an accessible introductory level, and packed with images of weapons and armor from the museum's extensive collections, these books are designed to fascinate fans of military history a ...Show more
