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Women Who Dared: To Break All the Rules by Jeremy Scott
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared. They had no time for what society said they could and couldn't do and would see the world bend before they did. In 1872 a mesmerising psychic named Victoria Woodhu ...Show more
The Great Imperial Hangover - How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
'An excellent read.' -- Robert D. Kaplan. For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face to ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat (HB) by Julian Barnes
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
First Map: How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder and David Elliot
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of how James Cook charted Aotearoa New Zealand, lavishly produced and richly illustrated. Since it was published by the Admiralty in 1816, James Cook's chart of New Zealand has long been regarded as one of the most extraordinary achievements in the history of cartography. First Map: How James ...Show more
Beyond the Known - How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars by Andrew Rader
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilization's earliest days to curre ...Show more
Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplor ...Show more
Battle of Britain - The Pilots and Planes That Made History by Simon Pearson; Ed Gorman
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
In Battle of Britain: The Pilots and the Planes That Made History, Ed Gorman and Simon Pearson paint a vivid picture of the men and their machines as the battle for air superiority over Britain is played out across the skies of Europe, from western Ireland to the German capital. They tell remarkable st ...Show more
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$24.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
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 centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
Mozart in Paris by Frantz Duchazeau
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
In 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart leaves Salzburg for Paris. The French capital promises to liberate the 22-year-old from the suffocating grip of his father, and from a city that is unable to accommodate his genius. But there is no grand entrance for the former child prodigy. When Mozart arrives in Paris ...Show more
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexiévich; Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 - A new translation based on the updated and expanded text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Sovie ...Show more
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen Matthews
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'The most formidable spy in history' IAN FLEMING 'His work was impeccable' KIM PHILBY 'The spy to end spies' JOHN LE CARR Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard Sorge moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. In the years leading up to and during the Second World Wa ...Show more
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence by Anita Anand
$27.00 NZD
Category: History
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 L ...Show more
