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Through an examination of documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, artefacts and DNA evidence, Gavin Menzies slowly and painstakingly reveals a ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant ...
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 ...
From the Renaissance to today, the idea that the Roman Republic lasted more than 450 years--persisting unbroken from the late sixth century to the mid-first ...
"Great Discoveries in Medicine" provides an unrivalled account of the evolution of medical knowledge and practice from ancient Egypt, India and China to todays latest ...
McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of the twentieth century. Combining the ...
How can a man who achieved so much be so little remembered?
Explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer, naturalist, meteorologist, author, student of the paranormal, and ...
It is 1941 and you are 21, flying the most famous aircraft ever built. You have at your command a Merlin V12 engine and four ...
A decade on from the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Australians are embroiled in what they were told was a 'good' war, the ...
The decline of the Roman Empire has been a subject of fascination and debate for centuries. In this original new work, Neil Christie draws on ...
The Second World War widows were the 'forgotten women', largely ignored by the government and the majority of the population. The men who died in ...
In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission. Leading a small force of Ethiopian freedom fighters on ...
First Modern Classics publication of this landmark work of social anthropology
Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his ...
Alan Wood's ambitious work is the first to address the whole span - both chronologically and thematically - of the development of Siberia, and its role ...
In the 1800s Britain was making a mint selling Indian opium to China. In return, they were buying tea, silks and ceramics. When eventually China ...
