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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...
Black August
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Author: Dennis WheatleyBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA chilling dystopian thriller, Black August chronicles a near-future Britain plunged into chaos by a devastating plague and subsequent societal...
Travels
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Author: David LivingstoneBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis seminal work chronicles the extraordinary expeditions of a pioneering Scottish missionary across the vast, uncharted landscapes of nineteenth-century Africa....
A Tourist In Africa
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Author: Evelyn WaughBinding: HardbackPublished: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA captivating travelogue, A Tourist In Africa chronicles Evelyn Waugh's journey through the...
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 Arab Conquests
The story of the Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries AD, when armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant,...
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...
Rorke's Drift
On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disembowelling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu...
American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World
For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the...
The Boer War
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Author: Thomas PakenhamBinding: HardbackPublished: WEIDENFELD AND NICOLSON, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor marks and specks on brown boards. Thomas Pakenham's monumental work, The Boer War,...
The Story Of Africa
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Author: Basil DavidsonBinding: HardbackPublished: RIGBY, 1984Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsBasil Davidson's The Story Of Africa presents a comprehensive historical narrative, challenging conventional Eurocentric...
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography Of Nelson Mandela
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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...
The Treasures Of Coptic Art: In The Coptic Museum And Churches Of Old Cairo
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Author: Gawdat Gabra; Marianne Eaton-KraussBinding: HardbackPublished: The American University in Cairo Press, 1111Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Structural split at the title...