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Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon by Lesley Adkins
34.99 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Exploration, decipherment and heroism in the name of learning, from the author of The Keys of Egypt.At Behistun, in the Zagros mountains of what is now western Iran, rises a vertical cliff face covered with a huge cuneiform inscription set up in 520 BC to record the exploits of the Persian king Darius t ...Show more
Empires of the Plain : Henry Rawlinson and the lost languages of Babylon by Lesley Adkins
24.99 NZD
29.95 (16% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
This is the exciting, true adventure story of Henry Rawlinson, a fearless soldier, sportsman and explorer. From 1827 he spent twenty-five years in India, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. A brilliant linguist, fascinated by history, he became obsessed with cuneiform, the world
The Little Book of Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Lesley Adkins
24.95 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit
The War for All the Oceans by Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins
65.00 NZD
Category: History
The period 1798 to 1815 - the Napoleonic Wars - has just about everything that you could wish for in a book on naval history - large fleet actions such as the Battle of the Nile and Copenhagen; many duels between pairs or small groups of ships, such as the Shannon and Chesapeake; combined operations lik ...Show more
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