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The Burning Time - Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London by Virginia Rounding
$25.00 AUD
Category: British History
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more si ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Columbus and The Conquest Of The Impossible by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$15.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: good
A highly readable and controversial portrait of a man driven by religion, influenced by mysticism, and, at best, a primitive navigator who barely knew how to use his ship's instruments. A pre-eminent historian calls into question earlier findings by himself and other scholars. With a new introduction an ...Show more
The Crown: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years That Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977 by Robert Lacey
$22.99 AUD
Category: British History
The fascinating royal and social history that inspired the second and third seasons of The Crown, from the show's historical consultant.
Cities of Gold: Obsession, Quixotic Quests, and Fantastic New World Wealth by Bill Yenne
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
The Exploration for Real and Mythical Treasures in the Americas. For half a millennium, stories of vast treasures El Dorado, Manoa, the Seven Cities of Cibola, the Lost Dutchman Mine have been part of the lore of the Americas. Long before the Europeans set foot in the New World, myths and rumors of fabu ...Show more
Rebel in the Ranks "Why Martin Luther and the Reformation Still Matters" by Brad S. Gregory
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism of indulgences became a rejection of the papacy and the Catholic Church emphasizing the Bible as the sole authority for Christian faith, radicalizing a continent, fr ...Show more
Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle by Peter Stanford
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Beginning with the gospel accounts, Peter explores two thousand years of cultural and theological his ...Show more
The Long Shadow - Australia's Vietnam Veterans since the War by Peter Yule
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
'Most veterans were either alcoholics or workaholics and I fitted into the latter category.' — Chris Cannin (6RAR, 1967; 7RAR, 1967-68) 'When I look back and I see what I used to do … there were a lot of things wrong that I would never ever admit to at the time … I thought I was fine, but I wasn't.' — A ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys by Jon E. Lewis
$15.00 AUD
Category: General
This collection of compelling eye-witness accounts showcases the very best writing on the Antarctic, from Ernest Shackleton on the loss of the Endurance to Lynne Cox on her epic, icy swim in 2002.Includes 32 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth's last true wildernesses, enco ...Show more
Dragons' Teeth and Thunderstones - The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils by Kenneth J. Mcnamara
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few seventeenth-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the dead, and adorned bodies. What triggered such c ...Show more