Virusphere - Ebola, AIDS, Influenza And The Hidden World Of The Virus by Frank Ryan
9.99 AUD
22.99 (56% off)
Category: History
A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses - from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the same patterns of evolution as plants and animals?Frank Ryan answers ...Show more
The Bible in Australia - A Cultural History by Meredith Lake
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached, a ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on ...Show more
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World by Anthony Sattin
32.99 AUD
Category: History
The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history. Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
32.99 AUD
Category: History
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better lif ...Show more
Gates of Fire : An epic novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield
24.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: PRESSFEILD STEVEN
________Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.________Nearly 2,500 years ago, in 480BC, at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million ...Show more
Heroes by Stephen Fry
35.00 AUD
Category: History
Mortals and Monsters Quests and Adventures Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fl ...Show more
Origin Story - A Big History of Everything by David Christian
35.00 AUD
Category: History
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answe ...Show more
Wish You Were Here: The Lives, Loves and Friendships of the Butlin's Girls by Lynn Russell
9.99 AUD
17.99 (44% off)
Category: History
Touching true stories from the heyday of the Butlin's holiday camps. 'When I got to the camp I felt as if I'd suddenly walked into Utopia - it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering in the breeze...There seemed to be laughter coming from ...Show more
Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day by John Keay
9.99 AUD
29.99 (66% off)
Category: History
The first modern history of all South Asia's peoples. If British India had not been partitioned in 1947, its population would today be the world's largest. At c1.5 billion, Midnight's Descendants (the offspring of those affected by 'the midnight hour' Partition) already outnumber Europeans and Chinese; ...Show more
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved i ...Show more
Matthew Flinders, Navigator and Chartmaker by Geoffrey C. Ingleton
29.99 AUD
199.99 (85% off)
Category: Australian History