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A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
35.00 NZD
Category: History
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part ex ...Show more
A History of England in 100 Places : From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
40.00 NZD
Category: History
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part ex ...Show more
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
41.00 NZD
Category: History
Intricate, captivating, beautiful, romantic, unique, unforgettable - John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world's busiest and most powerful ...Show more
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
35.00 NZD
Category: History
As comprehensive as it is engaging, John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice is a complete history of "the most beautiful and magical of cities." This necessary volume traces the rise of Venice from its fifth-century origins through 1797 when Napoleon put an end to the thousand-year-old Republic.
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
35.00 NZD
Category: History
"A Short History of Byzantium" is renowned historian, and author of "A History of Venice", John Julius Norwich's classic history of Byzantium. Constantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody centuries, the Byzantine Empire became a beacon of ...Show more
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich
28.00 NZD
Category: History
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
28.00 NZD
Category: History
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPH I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel cross ...Show more
France - A History from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
"...This book is written in the belief that the average English-speaking man or woman has remarkably little knowledge of French history. We may know a bit about Napoleon or Joan of Arc or Louis XIV, but for most of us that's about it. In my own three schools we were taught only about the battles we won: ...Show more
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra by Paul Duncan, John Julius Norwich, No Author Listed
28.00 NZD
Category: History
'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour photographs. 'I discovered Sicily almost by mistake ...We drove as far as Naples, then put the car on the night ferry to Palermo ...Show more
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich
65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. "The Great Cities in History" tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo and Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character ...Show more
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich
23.00 NZD
Category: History
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. The Great Cities in History tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo and Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character o ...Show more
The Illustrated Christmas Cracker by John Julius Norwich
25.00 NZD
Category: Gift Books
For over forty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers - a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends - to his friends instead of a Christmas card. In The Illustrated Christmas Cracker Quentin Blake has made his own selection of favourite pieces and ha ...Show more