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Epic Continent - Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe by Nicholas Jubber
37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
These are the stories that made Europe. Journeying from Turkey to Iceland, award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber takes us on a fascinating adventure through our continent's most enduring epic poems to learn how they were shaped by their times, and how they have since shaped us. The great European ...Show more
The Fairy Tellers by Nicholas Jubber
37.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Fairy-Tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was formed. In The Fairy Tellers, award-winning travel-writer Nick Jubber explores the secret history of fairy-tales: the people who told them, the landscapes that forged ...Show more
The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber
29.99 NZD
Category: Mythology
Who were the Fairy Tellers?In this far-ranging quest, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber unearths the lives of the dreamers who made our most beloved fairy tales: inventors, thieves, rebels and forgotten geniuses who gave us classic tales such as 'Cinderella', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Beauty and the Beas ...Show more
The Prester Quest by Nicholas Jubber
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1177, Pope Alexander III wrote a letter to the Priest-King of the Indies, Prester John. As his emissary he chose his physician, Master Philip. No one knew where the legendary monarch
The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Lessons from the People of the Desert by Nicholas Jubber
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the ho ...Show more
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