Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest. For Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What ...Show more
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? Here at last is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. First published 2005.
Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves by Lucy Lethbridge
$46.00 NZD
Category: History
'I really can't recommend Lucy Lethbridge's new book on the history of tourism enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom Holland'Delightful ... witty ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book' Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on Sunday'It is the paramount wish of every English heart, ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thou ...Show more
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
$29.00 NZD
Category: History
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical ...Show more
German Battleships 1939-45 by anon
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
In this, the first of a five volume series covering the capital ships of the German Navy of World War II, Gordon Williamson examines the design, development and operational use of the battleships used by the Kriegsmarine. The
Locomotion: A Visual History of Trains by Alastair Steele; Ryo Takemasa (Illustrator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
A stunningly illustrated tribute for train lovers of all ages, Locomotion celebrates the ingenuity of trains past, present and future.
The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.'A magnificent book . . . at once touching, exquisite, devastating and extraordinary.'PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street and The Ratline'A vivid, funny, and imperturbable po ...Show more
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of ...Show more
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside by Matthew Kelly
$48.00 NZD
Category: History
A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, acti ...Show more
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars by Peter Stothard
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
This is an unusual history of a time that still defines our world - a view of the early Roman empire that its historians never intended us to see. Beginning sixty years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, it graphically depicts a story parallel to that of Caligula and Nero, and shows us those stru ...Show more