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Africa Explored: Europeans In The Dark Continent 1769-1889
$12.00 AUD
Author: Christopher HibbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen Lane, London, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: General wear, fraying and browning on external dust cover and some pages inside; pages in...
Lost Worlds Of Africa
$15.00 AUD
Author: James WellardBinding: HardbackPublished: London : Hutchinson, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis work chronicles the forgotten histories and enigmatic civilizations that once thrived across...
Empire
The British Empire radically altered the modern world. At its height, it governed over a quarter of the human race and encompassed more that a fifth of the globe. As...
Venture To The Interior
$15.00 AUD
Author: Laurens Van Der PostBinding: HardbackPublished: The Reprint Society, 1953Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling travelogue chronicles a remarkable expedition into the remote, untamed landscapes of Africa....
Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture
The colonial architecture of the 19th century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do...
The Quest for the Secret Nile: Victorian Exploration in Equatorial
The Nile, stretching for a distance of 4,163 miles, is the longest river in the world. The ancient Greeks were obsessed by the provenance of so much water, feeding a...
Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens
**WINNER OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITION CATEGORY, EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2020** 'A real page-turner ... a warning about what happens when the rich and powerful dress up their avarice...
Don Mccullin In Africa
$75.00 AUD
Author: Don MccullinBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape., 2005Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor foxing to page edges.Don McCullin's Don McCullin In Africa presents a compelling visual...
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 opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable - war and humiliation....
The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century
A unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in...
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in
A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, complex and controversial history. Captives and...
Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity
An ambitious and engagingly history of how encounters with Christianity have shaped Hindu identity and nationalism in colonial and contemporary India When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth...
The Zambezi: A History
The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used...
Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India
From war with the British to the enslavement of Indians, Ivermee uncovers the dark history of France's doomed imperial project in South Asia. This is a powerful new account of...
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led...
Congo Mercenary
$35.00 AUD
Author: Mike HoareBinding: HardbackPublished: Robert Hale London, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCongo Mercenary chronicles the harrowing experiences of a legendary mercenary leader during the tumultuous 1960s in...
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading,...
French Lessons In Africa: Travels with my Briefcase through French
Having travelled across West Africa for over ten years, Peter Biddlecombe's often hilarious account of a long and lingering liaison dangereuse with the sixty per cent of the continent that...
The Africans
$40.00 AUD
Author: Robert LaitBinding: HardbackPublished: Anthony Gibbs & Phillips, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe acclaimed work The Africans by Robert Lait presents a comprehensive...
Taking Stock: Johannesburg Stock Exchange – The First 100 Years (SIGNED)
$200.00 AUD
Author: Margot BryantBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1987Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Number 53 of 100 copies. Slipcase good. A definitive...
The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History
From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century. George...
David Livingstone: His Triumph Decline And Fall
$20.00 AUD
Author: Cecil NorthcottBinding: HardbackPublished: Lutterworth Pres, 1973Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography chronicles the remarkable life of a legendary explorer, tracing his ambitious expeditions across...
Milner: Viscount Milner Of St James's And Cape Town
$35.00 AUD
Author: Terence H. O'BrienBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable London, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the impactful career of Alfred Milner, a pivotal figure in British imperial...
African Saga
$15.00 AUD
Author: Mirella RicciardiBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerAfrican Saga presents a vivid, personal account of life and adventure across the diverse...
North Africa 1940-1942: The Desert War
$15.00 AUD
Author: Peter BadmanBinding: HardbackPublished: TIME-LIFE BOOKS AUSTRALIA in association with JOHN FERGUSON SYDNEY, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsNorth Africa 1940-1942: The Desert War chronicles the intense military campaigns fought...
With the Flag to Pretoria : A History of the Boer War 1899-1900 (Two-Volume Set)
$100.00 AUD
Author: J. A. Wilson, H. W., HammertonBinding: HardbackPublished: Harmsworth Brothers Ltd, 1900Condition:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn boards with marks and specks. Shaky binding with boards...
Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom in South Africa
In an extraordinary and engaging account this book traces the paths South Africans have followed from pre-colonial times to the democratic present, providing fascinating personal and historical details, and raising...
Wildlife Worlds: Africa
This stunning six-book series explores some of Earth's iconic landmarks and habitats, and the plants and animals that live there. AFRICA explores the incredibly diverse range of habitats and wildlife...
The Private Lives of the Pharaohs
Ancient Egypt, land of the pharaohs, bore witness to the rise and fall of the world's greatest civilization. A combination of evidence ranging from the pyramids and rock-cut tombs to...
Ancient Egypt
A reign-by-reign history of ancient Egypt. An introduction covers landscape and resources, followed by chapters on the prehistory and dynastic period. The main part of the book recounts the history...
Origins of the South African War, 1899-1902, The
Iain Smith's impressive reappraisal of the origins of what used to be known as the Anglo-Boer War is based on extensive work in the British and South African archives. While...
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World
One of the most monstrous enterprises in the annals of international history,' said Karl Marx. 'A madness without parallel since Don Quixote,' said a future French president. This is history's...
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
Captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the Pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone, Al-Hasan al-Wazzan...
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022 A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions impact their future. Think of...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard examines the history of beauty in civilisation. Beginning with the Jericho painted skulls from 10,000...
North Africa And Syria: Australians In World War Ii
$20.00 AUD
Author: Philip MaselBinding: PaperbackPublished: Department of Veterans' Affairs. Canberra, 2012Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageUnknown
The Road From Sharpeville
$35.00 AUD
Author: Bernard SachsBinding: HardbackPublished: DENNIS DOBSON, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the profound societal and personal transformations...
The Sound Of Thunder
$120.00 AUD
Author: Wilbur SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann London, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Excellent condition. Slight fading to colours on spine of DJThis sweeping historical saga, The...
Roots: The Saga Of An American Family
$25.00 AUD
Author: Alex HaleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson of Australia, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsRoots: The Saga Of An American Family chronicles the harrowing yet ultimately triumphant journey of several...
Seven Seasons
$35.00 AUD
Author: Peter ForbathBinding: HardbackPublished: Atheneum, NY, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsSeven Seasons chronicles the intricate journey of a protagonist navigating the ebb and flow of life's most...
The Rehearsal: Australians At War In The Sudan 1885
$30.00 AUD
Author: K. S. InglisBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Wear to board. Faded board spine with chip to same. Light tanning to block. Pages...
July's People
$20.00 AUD
Author: Nadine GordimerBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Discoloured, faded and lightly chipped spine of DJ. Minor denting to spine of...
Monsoon
$15.00 AUD
Author: Wilbur SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1999Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsMonsoon is an epic historical adventure that chronicles the tumultuous lives of the Courtney family across generations....
Australians And Egypt: 1914-1919
$30.00 AUD
Author: Suzanne BruggerBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne U. P. Melbourne, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis historical account, Australians And Egypt: 1914-1919, chronicles the significant presence and impact of Australian...
The Sahara
Touching every corner of North Africa is the Sahara Desert, one of the wildest habitats on Earth. This is a land of singing sand dunes, barren plains, mirages and glistening...
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill
The dramatic story of one of the most formative years in the life of Winston Churchill. The dramatic story of one of the most formative years in the life of...