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Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
Author: Roger Crowley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in...
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
Author: Roger Crowley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the...
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...
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy,...
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed,...
View from a Low Bough
`From the front row of the group of kids, a little boy of about eight gave us the V sign as his older friends had taught him to do. A...
Roger Casement
$10.00 AUD
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...