LIFE OF GEORGE BASS : SURGEON AND SAILOR OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT by MIRIAM ESTENSEN
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A full account of the life, times and mysterious disappearance of George Bass, one of Australia's most significant maritime explorers, from the author of the highly acclaimed Discovery and The Life of Matthew Flinders.
Malinche by Laura Esquivel
$30.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Recounts the story of the love affair between the conquistador Hernan Cortes and Malinalli, his Indian interpreter during the conquest of the Aztec empire, describing her role as a mediator between two very different languages and cultures.
The Letters of George & Elizabeth Bass by MIRIAM ESTENSEN
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A beautiful and tragic love story told through the letters explorer George Bass exchanged with his new, young wife, Elizabeth, during their very short marriage. Theirs was a passionate and extraordinary love affair carried out across the oceans, a love that Elizabeth never let go as she wrote increasing ...Show more
Napoleon's Wars : An international history 1803-1815 by Charles J. Esdaile
$69.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Allen Lane History S.
No other soldier has provoked as much argument as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was Napoleon a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory - or was he a social and political visionary brought down by the petty, reactionary kings and emperors, clinging to their privileges? "Napoleon's Wars" ...Show more
India's Tainted Paradise by Abraham Eraly
$65.00 AUD
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The Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures, men written on a supra-human scale who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE MUGHAL THRONE, mark one of the most crucial and fascinating periods of Indian history. Here, he looks beyond ...Show more
A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby
$65.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Over the last century, we have gone from ignorance as to why some diseases run in families to the availability of simple genetic tests that can be bought on the internet. And, from announcements of the death of Darwinism to the triumph of the modern theory of evolution. All this is thanks to the fruit f ...Show more
The Gathering by Anne Enright
$44.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister, Veronica was there then, ...Show more
The Dog by Kerstin Ekman
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In the heart of the tranquil countryside, a young puppy leaves his home to eagerly follow his mother and master. But away from the safe haven of the farm, the puppy soon becomes lost and is left to struggle for survival in the wild. Suddenly, he must find food and a safe place to sleep, and outwit his c ...Show more