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Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa's Last Great Herds
Sibert medalist and National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery takes readers on a staggering, emotional journey alongside the greatest land migration on the planet earth - that of the wildebeest...
White Boy Running
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Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius
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Faces of Africa
"I try to read people's lives," says photographer Mario Marino. In this new photo book, the Austrian-born camera artist presents over 220 colour and black-and-white photographs from some of the...
The First Salute: View of the American Revolution
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El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
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Hawaii's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History
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The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
Abolish the Monarchy: Why we should and how we will
It's wrong in principle and it doesn't work in practice. (And no, it's not good for tourism.) It doesn't have to be this way. They say Britain should be proud...
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...
African Europeans: An Untold History
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A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 -- Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans...
Conversations With Myself
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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:...
African Europeans: An Untold History
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, "masterfully" ( Smithsonian ) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War
'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person,...
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill
From The New York Times bestselling author, the gripping story of Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve his ambition of...
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds of Britain Europe & Africa: A Comprehensive Visual Guide and Identifier to Over 550 Birds
The habitats of Great Britain, Europe and Africa boast some of the most interesting and adaptable members of the avian world. This accessible and fully illustrated guide presents some of...
The New Encyclopedia of British, European & African Birds: An Illustrated Guide and Identifier to Over 550 Birds, Profiling Habitat, Behaviour, Nesting and Food
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The habitats of Great Britain, Europe and Africa boast some of the most interesting and adaptable members of the avian world. This accessible and fully illustrated guide presents some of...
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain....
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story...
The World After Gaza
From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of...
Mind over Miles: A Story of Endurance Running, Overcoming Obstacles
Endurance, Determination and Grit- The first ever man to run the length of Africa shares his inspirational story Endurance, Determination and Grit- The first ever man to run the length...
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...
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the
From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity's future The land of the free. The home of...
The Outsider: Manga Edition
The exquisite manga adaptation of one of the world's greatest 20th century fiction classics 'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' A stranger to society, a stranger...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with...
Conquistadores
A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends...
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...
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 Architecture of Modern Empire
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back...
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking
Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the...
Orientalism
The book that redefined our understanding of the legacy of European colonialism and empire, now reissued with a new PMC jacket 'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer In this highly acclaimed...
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...
The Parade
From the best-selling author of The Circle, a powerful modern fable on the legacy of colonialism, the dark power of global corporations, and the challenge of truly 'doing good' Two...
Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Dark Star Trilogy Book 1
The story of a lost child, an extraordinary hunter, and a mystery with many answers . . . Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter...
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
The groundbreaking bestseller which examines the effect of empire on modern Britain In Britain, imperialism is everywhere - though we often choose not to see it. From the way we...
Personal Writings
A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side, Nuptials and Summer This volume contains some of Camus' most intimate...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization
An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing...
Warrior: A legendary leader's dramatic life and violent death on the colonial frontier
Winner of the 2015 Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance Winner of the 2016 Magarey Medal for Biography 'Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our...
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...
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping human story' - Washington Post '[An] epic history ......
Lost Boy No More
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