Camera in the Crowd by Pugsley Christopher
$93.95 AUD
Category: History
Filming and cinema quickly won the hearts of New Zealand from the mid-1890s, yet the story of the cameramen and the film they took here and in the First World War has never been fully captured. The Camera in the Crowd does that in style, bringing to fruition years of original research and archival work ...Show more
Ancient Rome: An Illustrated History by Rodgers Nigel
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
The legacy of Ancient Rome shapes the world we inhabit today. The history of Rome - as a tiny primitive kingdom, as an ever-growing republic, as a world-ruling empire dominating the known world - is still influential. The first half of this book focuses on the political and military history of Rome. The ...Show more
Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated History by Lucia Gahlin
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
A detailed history with fascinating insights and a gorgeous visual reference, this book tours the sacred Egyptian sites, from the impressive mortuary temples of the pharaohs to those dedicated to the many gods and goddesses.It includes an in-depth examination of the crucial role that religious belief an ...Show more
Star Wars Memorabilia by Berry Paul
$44.95 AUD
Category: History
Star Wars first debuted on movie screens in 1977 and over the past forty years has grown into a merchandising phenomenon unequalled both in breadth and range. It has generated more collectables than any other movie series in history. From inexpensive pocket money toys to big ticket full-size replicas, i ...Show more
Lion Boy and Other Medical Curiosities by Bondeson Jan
$44.95 AUD
Category: History
In this book of amazing oddities, the successor to his popular 'Cabinet of Medical Curiosities', Jan Bondeson explores various surprising and bizarre aspects of the history of medicine. Does people's hair go white after a sudden fright; can the image of the killer be seen in the eyes of a murdered perso ...Show more
Glory and Dishonour by Izzard Brian
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
There have been many books on Victoria Cross heroes but this is the first one to explore the lives of those for whom the greatest accolade did not bring contentment, happiness or lasting fame. Men like the Cheltenham-born Duncan Boyes. The 17-year-old Midshipman Boyes won the VC in 1864, carrying the Qu ...Show more
Her Finest Hour by Mcdonald Rothwell Gabrielle
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Diana Rowden was a woman of the finest character. As an agent with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), she was dropped into France alongside Noor Inayat Khan and worked in the Resistance stronghold of the Franche-Comte department. Hunted at every turn by the Gestapo, Diana worked tirelessly for the ...Show more
Bridges: Spanning the World by Binney Marcus
$99.95 AUD
Category: History
Building bridges across rivers, canyons, straits and sea represents one of man's greatest endeavours. It has stretched human ingenuity, engineering and material technology to their utmost limits. Their creation has been driven by man's desire, from the earliest times, to make lines of communication poss ...Show more
New York: Places to Write Home About by Devlin Polly
$99.95 AUD
Category: History
New York is a town of more quartiers and arondissements than Paris, more souks and bazaars than Cairo, a place of havens from overwhelming energy and of studios where that energy is generated. Above all else, it is where everyone wants to make a mark. And for a lot of residents the biggest mark of all i ...Show more
Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure by Taylor John H Dorey Helen
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure describes one of the most important antiquities ever found in Egypt - the beautiful calcite sarcophagus of the pharaoh Seti I. Discovered in 1817 in the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings by the flamboyant explorer Giovanni Belzoni, the sarcophagus now resides i ...Show more
Ancestors in the Attic by Holroyd Michael
$89.95 AUD
Category: History
Michael Holroyd, perhaps the most distinguished of contemporary biographers, has in recent years turned his attention to the stories hidden within his own fascinating (not to say eccentric) family. In Ancestors in the Attic he teases out two especially intriguing episodes, the tales of his great-grandmo ...Show more
Allen Curnow Collected Poems by Caffin Elizabeth
$65.95 AUD
Category: History
Allen Curnow (1911-2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move - from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and my ...Show more