History - General
Sheeplands: How Sheep Shaped Wales and the World
Human civilisation was not just created by humans: we had the help of many creatures, and foremost a..
Author: Marshall, Alan
$45.00 NZD
Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History
Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opiu..
Author: Pembroke, Michael, Hon Justice
$42.99 NZD
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the futur..
Author: Prasad, Aarathi
$27.99 NZD
Smoke And Ashes: Opium Hidden Histories
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years..
Author: Ghosh, Amitav
$37.99 NZD
SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups
From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absu..
Author: Helms, Ed
$39.99 NZD
Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches
On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows H..
Author: Lee, Carol Ann
$49.99 NZD
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _________..
Author: Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe (University of Notre Dam
$22.99 NZD
Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost Worlds
From Stone Age lands that slipped beneath the English Channel to the rapid inundation of New Orleans..
Author: Rees, Gareth E.
$39.99 NZD
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003
The inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam Hussein The Achilles Tr..
Author: Coll, Steve
$39.99 NZD
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
Every book-lover's dream- a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the remarkabl..
Author: Smyth, Adam
$29.99 NZD
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
Every book-lover's dream- a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of ..
Author: Smyth, Adam
$74.99 NZD
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice ..
Author: Amrith, Sunil
$79.99 NZD
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of w..
Author: Graeber, David
$29.99 NZD
The Death of Stalin
What happened when the terrifying Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, suddenly died? When Joseph St..
Author: Fitzpatrick, Sheila
$34.99 NZD