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The First Frontier: The Occupation of the Sydney Region 1788-1816
The arrival of the First Fleet heralded monumental and often catastrophic changes to the lives of the indigenous peoples living between the Blue Mountains and the sea. As British settlement...
The Big Five of Africa
$15.00 AUD
The lion, the leopard, the elephant, the rhino and the buffalo are presented through text and photographs. The volume also covers the basic biology and ecology of each of the...
The First Fleet: The Real Story
In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. According to the conventional...
In the Age of Mabo: History, Aborigines and Australia
The 1992 High Court's Mabo decision has provoked much controversy in contemporary Australia. As the ruling has increasingly become the subject of intense debate throughout the community, the implications of...
Winds of Change, 1914-39
$30.00 AUD
Author: Harold MacmillanBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper and Row, New York, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn this compelling work of political history, Harold Macmillan, former Prime Minister of the United...
The Trade Makers: Elder Dempster In West Africa 1852-1972
$45.00 AUD
Author: P. N. DaviesBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the extensive operations of Elder...
Born Of The Desert: With The S.A.S. In North Africa
$60.00 AUD
Author: Malcolm JamesBinding: HardbackPublished: Greenhill Books, London; Presidio Press, California, 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slightly sun faded spine otherwise mintThis gripping work of military history chronicles...
What Became Of The Mamelukes?
$15.00 AUD
Author: Mary Cathcart BorenBinding: HardbackPublished: Wheaton - Pergamon Group, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsIn this compelling work of historical non-fiction, Mary Cathcart Boren meticulously chronicles...
Cairo: The City Victorious
Every great city deserves a book like this one: a sweeping chronicle by an author whose motives mix passion and bewilderment. Over the course of four and a half millennia,...
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the...
Australia's Boer War
$150.00 AUD
The author has drawn on primary sources from Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce a book that encompasses not only Australia's experience of the war, but also...
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian
'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person,...
The Black Hole of Calcutta
From 1600 the English East India Company traded with the Indian sub-continent, tried to avoid becoming involved in internal politics, and made fortunes for its principal employees. But one event...
Egypt: How A Lost Civilisation Was Rediscovered
For nearly two thousand years after the last pharaoh ruled Egypt the wonders of this ancient culture remained hidden, seemingly lost and forgotten for ever. Then, in the late eighteenth...
How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the
How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew...
Ireland's Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the English-Speaking
How did the Irish stay Irish? Why are Irish and Catholic still so often synonymous in the English-speaking world? Ireland's Empire is the first book to examine the complex relationship...
Africa: A Continent Self-destructs
Schwab discusses how myriad Subsaharan African states have all but ceased to exist as organized entities, with some spiralling into complete disintegration. Several were propelled into tyranny, others collapsed into...
Foreign Native: An African Journey
From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator, Johnson has produced an entertaining and occasionally eye-popping memoir...
The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented...
A History of the British Presence in Chile: From Bloody Mary to
This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players,...
Nelson Mandela: A Biography
Sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island for his part in organizing armed rebellion against South Africa's white rulers, Nelson Mandela stayed faithful to his goal of a peaceful, non-racial...
Friends and Enemies: The Natal Campaign in the South African War
When the Boer Republics invaded Natal in 1899, the invaders could have been driven out with casualties measured in hundreds. Instead Britain was to lose nearly 9,000 men killed in...
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to
Timbuktu has long been seen as a paradise to Westerners who had, for centuries, led perilous and mostly failed 'discovery' expeditions to the city. It's also legendarily known as the...
Oblivion Rouge, Volume 1: The HAKKINEN: Volume 1
Oblivion Rouge follows the career of a young teenage villager named Oumi as she becomes embroiled in a conflict that threatens a futuristic Africa and the world itself. In the...
Hearts of Darkness: European Exploration of Africa
This book proposes a thematic treatment of the subject. Following an historical survey of the achievements and scope of the explorers, the ensuing chapters deal with exploration under a series...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Heart of Fire: Missing - From Child Soldier to Soul Singer
Born in 1974 to an Ethiopian mother and an Eritrean father, Senait was abandoned by her parents as a baby and spent her early years in a state orphanage before...
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
For decades Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous for the outsider to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which have sprung many of...
The Egyptians
The Egyptians is a vibrant, accessible introduction to the people who lived along the Nile for almost thirty-five centuries. In this collection of essays, eleven internationally renowned Egyptologists present studies...
Africa
Africa is a source of amazing bio-diversity and home to some of the planet's most spectacular landscapes. The sights of this awe-inspiring continent are captured with consummate skill and sensitivity...
Among the Living: Where You Belong
Among the Living is a beautiful photography book that showcases the magnificent wildlife photography from Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Botswana, Rwanda, and Uganda taken by photographer and explorer Guadalupe Laiz over...
Zulu Kings and Their Armies
Covering nearly one hundred years of Zulu military history, this book focuses on the creation, maintenance, development, tactics and ultimate destruction of the Zulu army. It studies the armies, weapons...
The Slave Trade in Africa: An Ongoing Holocaust
At a time when the subject of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is seldom out of the news, this book provides a challenge to the popularly accepted view of the matter....
Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa's Last Great Herds
Sibert medalist and National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery takes readers on a staggering, emotional journey alongside the greatest land migration on the planet earth - that of the wildebeest...
Powerful Headdresses: Africa | Asia
Over the centuries, craftsmen have applied their creativity and technical skills to exploit the generous resources of Nature to marvellous effect. In this case they have employed seeds, leaves, flowers...
White Boy Running
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Faces of Africa
"I try to read people's lives," says photographer Mario Marino. In this new photo book, the Austrian-born camera artist presents over 220 colour and black-and-white photographs from some of the...
The First Salute: View of the American Revolution
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El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
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Hawaii's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History
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