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From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder ...
'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ... [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them ...
From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes
'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' Guardian
Their names still echo down the ages: The ...
A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world ...
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schroedinger's cat.
Tyson Yunkaporta looks ...
A bold new story of human progress, told through six materials that built our world and will transform our future. For fans of Tim Marshall ...
Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across ...
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding ...
'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.'
Inazo Nitobe's ...
A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies
The first great English-language travel ...
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five ...
Ancient Rome matters.
Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus ...
The epic story of one of the world's most enduring civilisations and empires.
'For who is so indifferent or indolent as not to wish ...
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
Viennese ideas saturate the ...
'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking... Concise and absorbing'
Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East
Rodrigo Diaz lived a violently colourful life in ...
