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Shooting Leave: Spying out Central Asia in the Great Game
Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game...
Cecil Rhodes: Flawed Colossus
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Zulu Victory: The Epic of Isandlwana and the Cover-up
'A fascinating read beyond the scholarly debate about who won the battle.' Sunday Times The battle of Isandlwana - a great Zulu victory - was one of the worst defeats...
The Blue Nile
An account of the course of the Blue Nile from the Ethiopian Highlands, through the Sudan and Egupt to the sea. The book contains an historical narrative which starts in...
Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori 1840 - 1914
How did early European artists of Australia and New Zealand perceive the Maori? What sort of images of Maori society and culture did they create? What ethnic preconceptions lay behind...
Khaki and Red: Soldiers of the Queen in India and Africa
Follow the combined forces of England and India through sixty-four years of campaigns. Faced with unfavorable and unfamiliar fighting conditions and untraditional warfare techniques, the Queen's fighting forces managed to...
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa
In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually...
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican
The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep. The...
Raj: Making and Unmaking of British India
This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India....
The Battle for Empire: The Very First World War, 1756-63
This text explores the conflict that began in 1756 and ended in 1763, generally known as the Seven Years War, which the author believes laid the foundations of the British...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 'Gripping ... remarkably wide-ranging' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of...
King Solomon's Mines
Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this thrilling edition...
Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British
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'More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty's Exile's is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfil's the historian's most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.' Niall Fergusson On a...
Wars of Empire
The 19th century signalled the high renaissance of Western imperialism. As more and more territory fell under colonial rule, European empires began to advance seemingly unchecked across the world. But...
Australia's Boer War
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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...
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...
The Commodore (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 17)
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. This is the seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded:...
A Training School for Elephants
From the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey tracing a colonial-era African expedition. In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan...
1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet
An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this....
The Fatal Shore
'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the...
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on...
Tasmania's Convicts: How felons built a free society
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells...
Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland's frontier killing times
'This is an important, well researched book: challenging, compelling and controversial. It is a must read for anyone interested in Australian history.' - Henry Reynolds The Queensland frontier was more...
The Colony: A history of early Sydney
Winner of the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 'Grace Karskens writes with the passion and insight of a novelist, and the accuracy of a historian. To read it...
Africa Squadron: the U.S. Navy and the slave trade, 1842-1861
Presents the history of the US Navy's Africa Squadron. Established in 1842 to enforce the ban on importing slaves to the United States, in twenty years' time the squadron proved...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
Breaking the Maafa Chain
Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative business.Nineteenth century-Two sisters,...