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The Jungle Doctor: The Adventures of an International Wildlife Vet
Explore the majestic, biodiverse world with Australia's very own 'jungle doctor'. Fresh from veterinary school, passionate conservationist Dr Chloe Buiting headed for the front line of Africa's rhino-poaching crisis, going...
The Jews in South Africa: An Illustrated history
$20.00 AUD
Spanning the past two centuries, this book explores the fascinating role played by this small but highly significant community in the economic. political, social and cultural life of this country....
Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State
$12.00 AUD
Originating at a conference held at UCC in 1997, these essays draw on scholarly findings in the fields of history, political science and folklore, providing a professional evaluation of Michael...
Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the soul of the ANC
$12.00 AUD
As a spokesman for a country, a continent and the developing world, Thabo Mbeki plays a crucial role in world politics, but to many people he is an enigma. Is...
The History of Modern Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak
The book titled The History of Modern Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak by the author P. J. Vatikiotis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World
Louis Jacobs opened the eyes of paleontologists to the African continent when he uncovered a major fossil site in the hills of Malawi in the 1980s. During five digging seasons...
The Chronicle of Jazz: Year-by-year, the Personalities, the Stories,
A year-by-year history of people and events telling the story of jazz and the personalities which have formed this music style. Beginning at the turn of the century, the text...
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
$12.00 AUD
Read the book that inspired the Academy Award and Golden Globe winning 2009 film INVICTUS featuring Morgan Freeman and Matt Daymon, directed by Clint Eastwood. Beginning in a jail cell...
Engineering the Pyramids
Using archaeological records and the basic principles of engineering, Dick Parry provides an account of the design history of the pyramids, the techniques and organization needed and insights into why...
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91
This is the story of Rimbaud`s `lost years' the years after he turned his back on poetry, and fame and France, for a life of wandering and obscurity in the...
Cairo
Gaze toward the Nile from the desert hills of Mukattam, and the vast city of Cairo unfolds before you, with its monumental architecture, teeming populace, and thousands of years of...
The Dawn of Universal History
This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary.. In this collection of essays written over a period...
Wilfrid Blunt's Egyptian Garden: Fox Hunting in Cairo
In the days of Empire, the British way of life was carried on with a blithe disregard for local peculiarities and this went hand in hand with a sometimes benevolent,...
Terrestrial Paradise
Terrestrial paradise and primeval garden, Eden represents an ideal of innocence and perfection that can only be aspired to today. Yet it has remained a conceptual prototype for gardens worldwide:...
Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide
Darfur is a region set apart: huge, remote, and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorized by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid, which has created...
The Sound Of Thunder (SIGNED)
$300.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Boards worn. Binding shaky. Dust jacket chipped and worn, protected in...