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Seafaring: Canoeing Ancient Songlines
'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle's do not...
Rifleman: A Front-Line Life
Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following...
The Age Of Improvement: 1783-1867
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, Britain stood on the cusp of a transformation so profound it would reshape...
Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps: A Sledger's History of the
Peppered with bouncers, expletives, and even the odd diplomatic incident, this is a rip-roaring journey through over a century of Ashes history. For a list of every Ashes century and...
Loose Ends and Extras
'Loose Ends and Extras' is the last in a trilogy of books Lord Briggs has completed since his 90th birthday in May 2011. Following on from 'Special Relationships: People and...
Victorian Cities
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis seminal work of urban history, Victorian Cities, chronicles the dramatic transformation of British...
The B. B. C.: A Short Story of the First Fifty Years
$25.00 AUD
Asa Briggs, one of Britain's foremost historians and the author of a widely acclaimed four-volume history of British broadcasting, here provides a concise account of the BBC's first fifty years...
The Victors
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Author: Brigadier Peter YoungBinding: HardbackPublished: AP Publishing, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerHistorians examine sixteen Battles in which some of the most famous Generals in modern history made...
The Nobel Century: A Chronicle of Genius
$40.00 AUD
The book titled The Nobel Century: A Chronicle of Genius by the author Asa Briggs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth
Paris in the 1930s-melancholy, erotic, intensely politicized-provides the poetic beginning for this remarkable autobiography by one of America's most renowned literary scholars. In Trains of Thought Victor Brombert recaptures the...
Who's Who in Victorian Britain
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Soul Taken: Mercy Thompson: Book 13
'Patricia Briggs never fails to deliver an exciting, magic and fable-filled suspense story' Erin Watt, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Royals series.Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and...
Who's Who in Victorian Britain
This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age...
A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain
The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but the familiarity with later 19th-century stories and history tends to give us a distorted view. Using character...
Mad Hatter's Holiday: A Novel Of Murder In Victorian Brighton
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Author: Peter LoveseyBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan and Co, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear, tanning to dust cover; some mildew on spine; pages in good conditionMad Hatter's...