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The history of Asia can be told through its great port cities: Guangzhou (Canton), Shanghai, Nagasaki, Basra, Aden, Jeddah, Kolkata (Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay), Colombo, Batavia ...
'An extraordinary journey of discovery' - Daily Telegraph
'Pedals along with never a dull paragraph . . . dazzling' - The Sunday Times
Ten years ago, I began to explore ...
A vivid and illuminating new history-separate fact from fiction, myth from legend-exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.
Vikings are an enduring subject of ...
The centuries that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476 saw the formation of numerous Romano-Germanic kingdoms from the fusion between ...
Gold is not what we think. It is usually discussed in the context of wealth and art but this book has a broader subject, so ...
A memoir that combines political and economic commentary with personal and national history.
Mohammad Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he ...
Two hundred and fifty years ago Captain James Cook, during his extraordinary voyages of navigation and maritime exploration, searched for Antarctica the Unknown Southern Continent ...
Covers Petersburg's political, social, economic, architectural, cultural and intellectual history, recounting events of world importance, and the often tragic lives of the city's ...
The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days. The Last Days of Richard III ...
Building on the huge popularity of mythological retellings, here is the story of the much misunderstood Medusa, told through ancient and modern minds, in a ...
Stuart Spouses looks at the oft-overshadowed consorts of the Stuart monarchs, from 1406 to 1714. By focusing on these people and detailing their rises to ...
A gripping new history of London during the Blackout-revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness
Fear was the ...
In April 1945, American forces were sweeping eastwards toward Berlin, in part advancing across territory that would eventually become part of the Soviet Occupation Zone ...
With the huge popularity of mythological retales, here is a timely, multi-author story of the flawed but all-powerful Odin, told through ancient and modern hands ...
Despite Rome's conquest of the Mediterranean, by the turn of the first century BC, Rome's influence barely stretched into the East. In the ...
