Jimmy Sharman's Boxers: Australia's legendary travelling boxing troupe by Stephen McGrath
38.00 NZD
Category: History
Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his u ...Show more
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
38.00 NZD
Category: History
A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of ...Show more
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation by Leon McCarron
38.00 NZD
Category: History
For thousands of years, the Tigris has acted as a lung exhaling life into Mesopotamia. Its cycles of flooding created seasons of plenty and seasons of scarcity. Water was once everywhere, from the northern mountains to the southern marshlands. But it is now beginning to falter, becoming clogged and erra ...Show more
The Race to the Future by Kassia St Clair
40.00 NZD
Category: History
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float th ...Show more
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
33.00 NZD
Category: History
"Skeie's account of ruthless conflict, political intrigue, and diplomatic machinations reads like a real-life Game of Thrones--without the dragons. Medieval history buffs will be riveted." --Publishers Weekly Thrilling history provides a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings th ...Show more
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter [A Sunday Times Bestseller] by Josef Lewkowicz
30.00 NZD
Category: History
An amazing, untold story of the Holocaust, of survivor turned Nazi hunter In the tradition of The Boy in the Woods and By Chance Alone, The Survivor is an unbelievable yet true story of one man's endurance and his determination to not only survive the Holocaust but to bring to justice those who perpetra ...Show more
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
40.00 NZD
Category: History
'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' - CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL HOUSE 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' - PETINA GAPPAH, AUTHOR OF OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean, the ...Show more
Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin
30.00 NZD
Category: History
‘Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.’ Adam Rutherford ‘Hilarious, ferocious, generous and convincing. It made me reconsider almost everything I thought I knew about Africa.’ Oliver Bullough Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes ...Show more
Philosophers Who Changed History by Simon Blackburn
65.00 NZD
Category: History
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each philosopher, alongside photographs of their homes and studies, and personal artefacts, Philosophers Who Changed History o ...Show more
A Waiter in Paris - Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm
28.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'This astonishing book describes a cruel, feral existence and is worthy of standing on the shelf next to George Orwell's Down And Out In Paris And London (1933) as another classic about human exploitation.' - Daily Mail'Chisholm's story is immersive and often thrilling ... He's a fine writer.' - WSJ'Kit ...Show more
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
33.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations--an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds--from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with t ...Show more
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 by Michael Broers
46.00 NZD
Category: History
*A KIRKUS BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2022* An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life--from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile--as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him. In 1811, Napoleon s ...Show more