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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Author: Edward Abbey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'My favourite book about the wilderness' Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Few ancient works have been as influential as the MEDITATIONS of Marcus Aurelius. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom,...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author...
Arriani
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The Nisibis War: The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337-363
Author: John S Harrel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the Nisibis War), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on...
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...
Antiochus The Great
Author: Michael Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial...
Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots
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Author: Simon Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal - kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and don't...
Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome
Author: Matyszak, Philip Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We are accustomed to think of the late Republic as a period in which Rome enjoyed almost uninterrupted military success against...
Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor
Author: P J Rhodes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to...
Strategist in Exile
Author: Rainer Nickel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Thucydides was the chronicler of the almost 30-year long Peloponnesian war, which came to a close with Sparta's victory over Athens...
Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic
Author: Gareth C. Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 286 The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile...
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC
Author: Dr. John D. Grainger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the...
Military History of Late Rome 284 361
Author: Ilkka Syvanne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume (5 are planned)...
Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East
Author: M. C. Bishop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 197 Lucius Verus is one of the least regarded Roman emperors, despite the fact that he was co-ruler with his adoptive...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
Author: Claudia Baracchi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work...
Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story
Author: Thomas N. Mitchell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200...
Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome
Author: Hughes, Ian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Attila the Hun is a household name. Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, he dominated European history for the next...
Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC
Author: Mike Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his...
Great Generals of the Ancient World
Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered...
Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235
Author: John S. McHugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 335 Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin,...
Maximinus Thrax
Author: Paul N. Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and...
Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt
Author: Aude Semet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 180 A fresh look at the British Museum's celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand years Pharaoh: King of...
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet...
The Victor's Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium
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Portals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western Tuscany
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Between and the Beyond: Essays on the Prehistory and History of North Britain in Honour of George Jobey
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The Rock Art of Easter Island: Symbols of Power, Prayers to the Gods
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The Last Assassin
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A gripping history' Mary Beard 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel 'Atmospheric and gripping, and [his]...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Daunt Books Book of the year 2023. Winner of the...
Roman Roads in the South-East Midlands
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Venus and Aphrodite
Author: Bettany Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Lively' THE TIMES 'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR 'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME 'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE Through ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when...
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx
Author: Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and...
Out Of China's Earth: Archaeological Discoveries In The People's Republic Of China
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The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
Author: Lecturer in Classics Edmund Richardson (Durham University UK) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A lost city. A thousand-year-old mystery. A quest that changed history. Beneath the plains of...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Caroline Vout Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to...
The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
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Cannon's Point Plantation 1794-1860: Living Conditions And Status Patterns In The Old South
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The Last Assassin
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined...
The Silent Patient
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A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There
Author: Dr Donald P. Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign...
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx
Author: Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and...
Black Horse Odyssey: Search for the Lost City of Rome in China
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God's Gold: the Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem
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The Tomb of God: Body of Jesus and the Solution to a 2, 000 Year Old Mystery
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