Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation by Kenneth W. Harl
39.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And, as Kenneth W. Harl ill ...Show more
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China - A History of Conflict by Lawrence James
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997.THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part t ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
39.99 NZD
Category: World 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
A Small Town in Ukraine - The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein
40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before.Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated- Krakowiec (Krah- ...Show more
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley
37.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph'On nearly every page a random passage takes one's breath away' The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road?For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
44.99 NZD
Category: World History
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time ''We need this book." SIMON REEVE by Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
44.99 NZD
Category: World History
'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It's a Continent because we miss out by not recognising the individual majesty, the complexity, the beauty, ...Show more
Papyrus - The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
37.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity's obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages - from one of Spain's most celebrated authors. Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand-copied on reeds pulled from th ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
30.00 NZD
Category: World History
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thu ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms (HB) by Richard Fidler
48.00 NZD
Category: World History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled a ...Show more
Pharaohs of the Sun - How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty by Guy de la Bedoyere
37.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1922, a century ago, the most sensational archaeological discovery of all time was made. When Tutankhamun's tomb was found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the contents staggered the world and have done so ever since.Tutankhamun, so obscure he was almost forgotten after his rule, was one of the last k ...Show more