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What It Was Like to be ... (4) - What it was like to be an Ancient
From sacred cats to the invention of toothpaste, Blue Peter Award winning author David Long takes readers on an intriguing investigation into the ancient Egyptian civilisation. The incredible civilisation of...
Rescue
How far would you go to save a life? Scrambling from the wreckage of his school after an earthquake, a nine-year-old Sichuan boy rescued two unconscious friends. 'I was hall...
Everest: Reaching the Roof of the World (Incredible True Stories, Book
Join the treacherous mission to conquer Earth's highest peak in David Long's enthralling retelling of the first expeditions to climb Everest. Everest is the world's highest mountain, towering like an...
Flight: From a Balloon to the Moon - and Beyond
From a hot air balloon to holidays on the moon, award-winning David Long captures the astonishing true stories of advances in aviation. From the Wright Brothers' twelve seconds aloft to...
Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission (Incredible True Stories,
A thrilling and captivating retelling of one of history's most famous space missions, from Blue Peter Book Award winning author David Long. April 1970: Apollo 13 was launched from the...
What It Was Like to be ... (1) - What It Was Like to be a Viking
From traders to raiders, embark on an incredible voyage through Viking life and history in the first in an exciting new series from bestselling non-fiction writer David Long. The Vikings...
What It Was Like to be ... (2) - What It Was Like to be an Ancient Roman
Author: David Long Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Embark on a fascinating foray into the lives of the Ancient Romans in this second instalment of David Long's What it...
What It Was Like to be ... (4) - What it was like to be an Ancient
From sacred cats to the invention of toothpaste, Blue Peter Award winning author David Long takes readers on an intriguing investigation into the ancient Egyptian civilisation. The incredible civilisation of...
When Darwin Sailed the Sea: Uncover how Darwin's revolutionary ideas helped change the world
Author: David Long Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 "One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand; then I...
Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission (Incredible True Stories, Book 1)
A thrilling and captivating retelling of one of history's most famous space missions, from Blue Peter Book Award winning author David Long. April 1970: Apollo 13 was launched from the...
The Battle of Long Tan
A compelling account of Australia's bloodiest and most significant battle of the Vietnam War, in time for the battle's 50th anniversary, by critically-acclaimed war writer David Cameron. On the afternoon...
Tutankhamun's Treasure
Uncover the incredible true story of Howard Carter's world-changing discovery in this fun and informative retelling of the secrets of Tutankhamun's tomb. On 4 November 1922, a young Egyptian boy...
Spies
Author: David Long (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A single spy can save thousands upon thousands of lives . . . From Harry Ree, teacher turned saboteur, to...
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
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A major new biography of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a unique figure in British history, a great writer as well as an imperial icon whose life trajectory matched...
What It Was Like to be ... (3) - What it was like to be an Ancient
Embark on a captivating exploration into the rise and fall of the rich and colourful Maya civilisation with Blue Peter Award winning author David Long. Largely forgotten for centuries, the...
What It Was Like to be ... (5) - What it was like to be an Ancient
Blue Peter Award winning author David Long takes readers on a captivating exploration into the culture and legacy of ancient Greek civilisation. Around 3,000 years ago, the ancient Greeks created...
Tragedy at Sea: The Sinking of the Titanic (Incredible True Stories,
Discover the astonishing facts about the Titanic and how it came to a catastrophic end in this illustrated, accessible and riveting account of one of history's most famous disasters. On...
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and at the same time a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature and added...
Classic Cars: How to Choose Your Dream Car
Motoring journalist, David Long, turns his expertise into a must-buy read for anyone who dreams of owning a classic car even if they'll never buy one but just wants to...
Long Road to Mercy
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Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed
Passionate Marriage has long been recognized as the pioneering book on intimate human relationships. Now with a new preface by the author, this updated edition explores the ways we can...
Survivors: BLUE PETER AWARD WINNER
Winner of the Best Book With Facts Blue Peter Book Award 2017 Beautifully presented in a large, paperback format, and fully illustrated in colour throughout, this wonderful anthology is a...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with
A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an...
Indecent Exposure
The book titled Indecent Exposure by the author David McClintock. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
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The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts
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The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
Author: Richard Fisher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter...
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSON A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of...
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
Author: Richard Fisher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter...
Great Escapes: BLUE PETER AWARD WINNER and Teacher's Pick author for
Discover the most daring escapes of all time! From slaves fleeing captivity to wartime heroes and heroines being smuggled across occupied Europe, from dangerous criminals tricking their way out of...
Long Island Compromise: A sensational new novel by the international
'Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES'Might be a masterpiece' HUGH LAURIE'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY'The...
Ransom: from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, An
Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature. 'Australia's finest writer' Miriam Cosic, The Australian '... profound ... subtle and extremely moving.' Daniel Mendelsohn,...
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
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Signifying Rappers
Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop. Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend...
The Fearful Fifties: A History Of The Decade
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Author: David LowBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsLow's The Fearful Fifties: A History Of The Decade chronicles a pivotal era, meticulously...
Rats, Rust and Two Old Ladies
Delivering two 38-year-old Mississippi river tugboats halfway around the world from Bahrain to Trinidad would not be every ship master's dream employment. However, for Captain David Creamer, the seven-week voyage...
History Matters
In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays-many published here for the first time-Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided...
Home Truths: A Memoir
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How Democracy Ends
'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' - ObserverDemocracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world....
Spies
Discover the exciting and dangerous lives of spies and secret agents from Award-winning David Long and rising star Terri Po. A single spy can save thousands of lives. Spies and...
Antarctica: A Biography-Random House Australia-Random House Australia
A groundbreaking history of human interaction with Antarctica, the last continent on earth. For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere. But...