The Dreadful Judgement by Neil Hanson
26.99 NZD
34.95 (22% off)
Category: History
If the storm that struck the Grand Banks off Newfoundland in October 1991 was The Perfect Storm, the fire that destroyed London in September 1666 was The Perfect Fire.A fire needs only three things: a spark to ignite it, and the fuel and oxygen to feed it. In 1666, a ten-month drought had turned London ...Show more
Empty Cradles by MARGARET HUMPHREYS
34.99 NZD
Category: History
EMPTY CRADLES is a powerful testament to an ordinary woman's astonishing dedication, compassion and stubborn courage. In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker and mother of two, investigated the case of a woman who claimed that, at the age of four, she had been put on a boat to Australia b ...Show more
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
29.99 NZD
Category: History
CHICKENHAWK contains the most vivid, astoundingly detailed descriptions of flying ever written. It is a devasting account of men at war, of courage and cowardice, boredom and exhilaration, lasting friendship and sudden death.Roberts Mason's war was supposed to bring the Viet Cong and the North Vietnames ...Show more
H.M "Bark Endeavour" by Ray Parkin
50.00 NZD
Category: History
Here, in one accessible volume, is Ray Parkin's highly acclaimed and multi-award winning study of Captain James Cook's Bark Endeavour. This incomparable book is at once a unique account of a great journey of discovery—Endeavour's voyage up the east coast of New Holland (Australia) in the year 1770—and a ...Show more
Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family's Untold Story by Rebecca L. Boehling & Uta Larkey
39.99 NZD
43.95 (9% off)
Category: History
A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account of Jewish family life before, during and after the Holocaust. Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey reveal how the Kaufmann-Steinberg family was pulled apart under the Nazi regime and disperse ...Show more
A Concise History of Wales by Geraint H. Jenkins
60.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Based on the most recent historical research and current debates about Wales and Welshness, this volume offers the most up-to-date, authoritative and accessible account of the period from Neanderthal times to the opening of the Senedd, the new home of the National Assembly for Wales, in 2006. Within a r ...Show more
The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific by Geoffrey Irwin
83.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is a remarkable episode of human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography, no documents to record their route, no metal, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, ...Show more
Wall Street to Main Street by Edwin J. Perkins
96.99 NZD
107.95 (10% off)
Category: History
A biography of Charles Merrill, the founder of the world's largest brokerage and investment firm.
James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific by Adrienne L. Kaeppler & Robert Fleck
90.00 NZD
Category: History
Captain James Cook (1728-1779) is renowned for leading three expeditions into the vast and uncharted waters of the Pacific Ocean. This text documents Cook's voyages and reproduces around 500 original items collected by him and the international team of scientists and artists accompanying him.
Costume Worldwide - A Historical Sourcebook by Melissa Leventon
69.95 NZD
Category: History
"Costume Worldwide" combines the studies of two classic 19th-century illustrators, Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth, alongside an illuminating modern text. Their works are presented first by chronology and then by subject, so that illustrators, historians and students alike can choose to follow ...Show more
The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner
57.95 NZD
Category: History
Powerful symbols of remote antiquity, the pyramids have intrigued and fascinated generations. In "The Complete Pyramids", newly available in paperback, Mark Lehner surveys the history, building and use of these fascinating and mysterious monuments in unprecedented scope and detail, looking at both the p ...Show more