Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
25.99 NZD
Category: History
Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. It remains one of the major feats of single-handed voyaging, and has since been the inspiration for the many who have gone to sea in small boats. Starting from B ...Show more
The Universe in a Mirror by Robert Zimmerman
61.00 NZD
Category: History
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. It has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the very existence of black holes, among other startl ...Show more
A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time : The Story of the Taj Mahal by Diana Preston
45.00 NZD
Category: History
Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tagore called the Taj Mahal "a teardrop on the cheek of time", the words inspired by the famous monument of flawless symmetry and elegance. It was built to mark the passionate love of a great Moghul emperor for his Empress. Yet the construction of this architectural jewel, ba ...Show more
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force, more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland and the United States. In the early decad ...Show more
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland began to spread throughout Europe. The architect of this theory was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. In around 1514 Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial ...Show more
Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44 by Anna Reid
59.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives wou ...Show more
The Drovers : Stories Behind the Heroes of Our Stock Routes by Evan McHugh
32.00 NZD
Category: History
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.' From the High Country to the Outback, there are extraordinary stories of the men and women who have travelled across Australia behind mobs of cattle, sheep and horses. These quiet achievers, of every race and creed, forged an Australia ...Show more