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The Quest for Immortality: Hidden Treasures of Egypt
This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects such as coffins, tombs, masks, jewellery, papyri, sarcophagi and...
Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for
There is no doubt: we want to help. The well-documented horrors of extreme poverty around the world have created a moral imperative that people have responded to in their millions....
Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost
"It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha Sesay's...
Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day
An essential guide for the discerning time-traveller: take a trip to ancient Egypt at the height of its power and prosperity in the reign of Ramesses II. More reliable than...
Images Of War: The Real Story Of World War Ii - Race For Tunis
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; souvenir newspaper and campaign includedIn the autumn of 1942, the fate of North Africa hung in the...
Images Of War: The Real Story Of World War Ii - North Africa 10 June 1940 To 12 February 1941
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; souvenir newspaper and campaign includedFew conflicts in the Second World War were as dramatic, as brutal, or...
The Australians At The Boer War (SIGNED)
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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: dj within mylar, taped to boards; some glue residue on the pastedown; binding slightly shaky;...
Glory
Shortlisted for the Booker this is an exhilarating, funny, whip-smart novel about power and corruption set in the animal kingdom **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022** 'You thought you were...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery
When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors soon became...
This Mournable Body: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020
ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE 'MAGNIFICENT.' Guardian 'A MASTERPIECE.' New York Times 'MARVELLOUS.' Sara Collins 'EXTRAORDINARY.' Madeleine Thien 'HYPNOTIC.' Daily Telegraph...
Warrior Princess: Fighting for Life with Courage and Hope
Princess Kasune Zulu grew up in an Africa, trying to make sense of the mystery illness claiming its people. As a child, she could not know the disease that claimed...
A Savage War Of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodOne of the most brutal and politically charged conflicts of the twentieth century unfolds in Alistair Horne's magisterial A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962...
Neither Justice Nor Reason: A Legal And Anthropological Analysis Of Aboriginal Land Rights
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of law, anthropology, and Indigenous rights, Neither Justice Nor Reason presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of the legal frameworks governing...
Good-Bye Dolly Gray: The Story Of The Boer War
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the turn of the twentieth century, the British Empire sent its soldiers marching into the...
Land Of The Pharaohs
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep back five thousand years into the cradle of civilization — Land of the Pharaohs by Leonard Cottrell is...
Cecil Rhodes
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of the British Empire cast as long and as controversial a shadow as...
General Gordon
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated and controversial figures of the British Empire, General Charles George Gordon — Gordon...
No Room In The Ark
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Edition: junior ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedAt a crossroads between wonder and extinction, No Room in the Ark presents a vivid...
Historical Records Of Victoria: Foundation Series, 2A & 2B
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark contribution to the documentary record of early colonial Australia, Historical Records of...
Treasures Of Tutankhamun
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew archaeological discoveries have ignited the world's imagination quite like the 1922 unearthing of Tutankhamun's tomb...
Smuts: 2. The Fields Of Force 1919–1950
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent decades following the First World War, few figures navigated the shifting tectonic plates of global politics with...
Rain of Lead: the Siege and Surrender of the British at Potchefstroom
First major book about the bitter siege of Potchefstroom. Based on eyewitness reports and contemporary documents.
Letters From the Empire: A Soldier's Account of the Boer War and the
From 17 trunks in a Lakeland attic comes this eyewitness account of a soldier's life at a pivotal moment in the history of the British Empire. Allan Marriot Hutchins, handsome,...
Blitzkrieg 6: North Africa & Italy 1942-1944
Continuing the story of Germany's amazing Blitzkreig tactics during the Second World War.
Pocket History: Settlements of the Doomed
Settlements of the Doomed is part of the Pocket History series - a conveniently portable, stylishly packaged and eminently collectible set of twelve books that each open a window onto...
Beloved African (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sun-scorched plains of Africa emerges a story as rich and complex as the continent itself...
Roger Casement
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in modern history burn with as much contradictory brilliance as that of Roger Casement...
History Of Zanzibar: From The Middle Ages To 1856
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: front hinges cracked; sticker on the copyright page. Long before the age of...
The Bloemfontein Diary Of Lieut. W.J. St. John 1852-53
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent years following the Sand River Convention, a young British officer stationed in the newly established Orange River Sovereignty set down his...
The Cambridge History Of Australia: Volume 1: Indigenous And Colonial Australia & Volume 2: The Commonwealth Of Australia
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the ancient landscapes shaped by the world's oldest living cultures to the modern corridors of Canberra's parliament, The Cambridge History of Australia presents...
Atlas Of Ancient Egypt
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew civilizations have captivated the human imagination as enduringly as ancient Egypt, and Atlas of Ancient Egypt by John Baines and Jaromir Málek stands...
To The African Wilderness With Dick Roughsey O.B.E. (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedA remarkable journey unfolds in To the African Wilderness with Dick Roughsey O.B.E., a vivid travel narrative that chronicles the extraordinary adventure...
Atlas Of The Islamic World Since 1500
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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the sacred courtyard of Mecca to the far reaches of the Indonesian archipelago, Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500 presents...
The Story Of An African Farm
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSet beneath the vast, indifferent skies of the South African Karoo, The Story of an African Farm is a landmark work of literary realism that follows...
Sudan To Vietnam
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched deserts of the Sudan to the dense, rain-soaked jungles of Vietnam, Sudan to Vietnam charts the arc of modern military conflict...
Cultural Atlas Of Africa
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAfrica — a continent of staggering diversity, ancient civilisations, and living traditions — is brought into vivid focus in Cultural Atlas of Africa, a...
The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical...
The Wild Almond Line
South Africa was at war. Mostly with itself. For those in power in the most infamously segregated of societies, the enemy was not just on the northern borders or in...
Pure Massacre: soldiers reflect on the Rwandan genocide
The account of what happened in Rwanda on 22nd April 1995 when a group of Australian UN peacekeepers were forced to watch helplessly while over 4,000 men, women and children...
Africa: Land of the Sun
Thirteen/WNET and National Geographic Television have joined forces to create a television event for Fall 2001 - Africa: Land of the Sun - and 8-hour film series showing the majesty...
To the Bitter End: A Photographic History of the Boer War 1899-1902
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The book titled To the Bitter End: A Photographic History of the Boer War 1899-1902 by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban
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An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wake At its peak, the...
Gone To Timbuctoo
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Edition: Third ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew destinations have captured the human imagination quite like Timbuctoo — that near-mythical city at the...
Cry, The Beloved Country
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA searing portrait of a fractured nation on the precipice of profound moral reckoning, Cry, The...
Cry, The Beloved Country
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscape of apartheid-era South Africa, Cry, The Beloved Country is a heart-wrenching moral...
The Courtneys: When The Lion Feeds; The Sound Of Thunder; A Sparrow Falls
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the sweeping, untamed landscapes of South Africa, The Courtneys is an omnibus edition collecting three of Wilbur Smith's most celebrated...
Congo
Hailed as 'a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel' (NRC Handelsblad), David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes's 'The Fatal...
Africa Since 1800: Second Edition
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sweeping savannahs of the Sahel to the turbulent ports of the Cape, Africa since 1800 presents...