This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, receiv ...Show more
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'Hisham Matar has the quality all historians - of the world and the self - most need: he knows how to stand back and let the past speak' Hilary Mantel on The Return ____________________________________ When Hisham Matar was nineteen years ...Show more
Strange Harvests by Posnett, Edward
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'An exceptional first book; Harvest is a subtle, fascinating braiding of travel, cultural and natural history... It is a pleasure and an education to journey with him in these pages' ROBERT MACFARLANE In a centuries-old tradition, farmers in north-western Iceland scour remote coastal plains for the dow ...Show more
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The Times An epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history's most venerated military and religious heroes opens a window on the Islamic and Christian worlds ...Show more
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR"An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this na ...Show more
How to Feed a Dictator - Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks by Witold Szablowski
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
Anthony Bourdain meets Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears. What was Pol Pot eating while two million Cambodians were dying of hunger? Did Idi Amin really eat huma ...Show more
Willoughbyland by Matthew Parker
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
From the Sunday Timesbestselling historian, Matthew Parker, comes Willoughbyland, the untold story of England's lost South American colony - a seventeenth-century tale of empire, El Dorado and violent rebellion, of spies, trickery and forbidden love.
The Patient Assassin - A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence by Anita Anand
$27.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The "compelling and] vivid" (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lie ...Show more
The Shortest History of England by James Hawes
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
In the internationally acclaimed Shortest History of Germany, James Hawes showed that the whole sweep of a national story can be captured in a short book packed with maps and graphics, throwing striking new light on the present day. Now he does the same for his own country. From the Roman invasion thro ...Show more
Long Live the Queen - Mighty, Magnificent and Bloody Marvellous Queens We've Forgotten by Emma Marriott
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
Powerful and influential kings have long dominated our view of global history, their queens often relegated to the shadows, their influence, deeds and sacrifices unacknowledged and lost in the passing of time. But not anymore... This book chronicles the forgotten queens from across the globe - those wh ...Show more
Last Boat Out of Shanghai - The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution--a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-turner . . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history is something that ha ...Show more
Three Tigers, One Mountain - A journey through the bitter history and current conflicts of China, Korea and Japan by Michael Booth
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'The next Bill Bryson' (New York Times) explores international relations past and present between three East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea and China - in this lively, absorbing travelogue China, Korea and Japan are the neighbours who love to hate each other. But why? More than neighbours, these ...Show more