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Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History
Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us. Native...
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...
Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970
One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in one of Africa's first post-independence...
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....
Do They Hear You When You Cry
Like the bestsellers Princess and Not Without My Daughter, Do They Hear You When You Cry? tells the dramatic, compulsively readable story of a woman fighting to free herself from...
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
"Safari" in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. In "Dark Star Safari", Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sudan and...
Forster In Egypt: A Graeco-Alexandrian Encounter; E.M. Forster's First Interview
$30.00 AUD
Author: Hilda D. Spear And Abdel Moneim AlyBinding: HardbackPublished: Cecil Woolf London, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work illuminates E.M. Forster's profound connection to Egypt, specifically...
Korea: Division, Reunification and U.S.Foreign Policy
$30.00 AUD
An introduction to the causes and consequences of the Korean War, this history seeks to challenge presumptions about Korea favoured by American politicians and network news pundits. Through a judicious...
African Wisdom 365 Days
This remarkable yearbook by Danielle and Olivier Foellmi, a follow-up to their successful Buddhist Offerings, presents the wise words of a leading personality in African literature for every day of...
To Benghazi
$25.00 AUD
Author: Gavin LongBinding: HardbackPublished: AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, 1952Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis official army history presents the opening...
Juan Maria Schuver's Travels In North East Africa 1880-1883
$45.00 AUD
Author: Wendy James, Gerd Baumann, And Douglas H. JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hakluyt Society, 1996Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, Juan Maria Schuver's Travels In North...
Sudan To Vietnam
$20.00 AUD
Author: Robert DarlingtonBinding: HardbackPublished: SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSudan To Vietnam by Robert Darlington presents a comprehensive historical analysis of global conflicts and geopolitical...
The Afrikander Rebellion: South Africa To-Day
$80.00 AUD
Author: J. K. O'ConnorBinding: PaperbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN, LTD., 1915Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Moderate insect damage affects...
War In South Africa And The Dark Continent: From Savagery To Civilization; War With The Boers: The Causes And Events Of The British-Boer War
$50.00 AUD
Author: William Harding, Donald Macdonald, John SandesBinding: HardbackPublished: The Australian Publishing Company, 1899Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks:...
The Sahara
$12.00 AUD
Author: Jeremy SwiftBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical and geographical account, The Sahara, chronicles the vast desert's natural history, its diverse ecosystems, and the...
Biko (SIGNED)
$250.00 AUD
Author: Donald WoodsBinding: HardbackPublished: PADDINGTON PRESS LTD, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Previous owner' name penned on reverse fep. Lengthy gifter's inscription on half-title page....
Through The Dark Continent: Or The Sources Of The Nile Around The Great Lakes Of Equatorial Africa And Down The Livingstone River To The Atlantic Ocean
$80.00 AUD
Author: Henry M. StanleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1890Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine...
The Discovery Of River Gambra
$50.00 AUD
Author: Richard Jobson, David P. GambleBinding: HardbackPublished: THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsRichard Jobson's The Discovery Of River Gambra chronicles a pivotal seventeenth-century expedition into West...
Deanna Bowen
This black-on-black book brings together over 20 years of Deanna Bowen's commitment to the excavation and recontextualization of colonial legacies-particularly those which implicate her family history and the Black diaspora...
If the world were a village
Aiming to provoke thought and elicit questions, this book explains facts about the world's population simply. Instead of unimaginable billions, it presents the whole world as a village of just...
The Kaya Girl
An extraordinary tale of two teenagers who were never meant to be friends, this page-turner transports readers to a bustling market in Ghana's capital city where one friendship transforms two...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts
A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice...
The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power
With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and...
A History of South Africa
'A remarkable feat of scholarship, fairness and readability, full of lively detail with a freshness of style which brings new life to the narrative' Anthony Sampson Throughout its turbulent history,...
The Book Of Echoes: An astonishing debut. 'Impassioned. Lyrical and
A powerful debut from an authentic new voice for the Doubleday list. THE BOOK OF ECHOES is a sweeping, uplifting and inspriational story of how a boy from Brixton and...
Crowds and Sultans: Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
Author: Amina Elbendary Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 During the fifteenth century, the Mamluk sultanate that had ruled Egypt and Syria since 1249-50 faced a series of sustained economic...
The Road to the Scottish Parliament
This important book provides an invaluable guide to Scoland's new parliament. With his unique insight, gained in more than twenty years of covering Scottish politics as a journalist, Brian Taylor...
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...
The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt - so familiar and yet so distant. We know so much about it, but there are still many unresolved questions. What were the pyramids actually for? How old...
Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries - A Year-by-year Chronicle
This is the story of Ancient Egypt as it was revealed to the world - a succession of discoveries and treasures. The book provides a trip through the golden ages...
Conversations with Myself
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts...
The New African Portraiture: The Shariat Collections
This catalogue brings together leading figures from a generation of thrilling figurative artists of African origin. The more than 20 artists shown in this catalogue are based on the African...
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography Of Nelson Mandela
$60.00 AUD
Author: Nelson MandelaBinding: HardbackPublished: Little, Brown and Company, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsLong Walk To Freedom presents the extraordinary life of Nelson Mandela, chronicling his journey from...