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1492: The Year Our World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the t ...Show more
1492: The Year Our World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
1492: The Year Our World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto traces modernity to its roots in the year 1492. It focuses on specific events of 1492 (including the Renaissance and voyages of Columbus) which Fernandez-Armesto views as crucial to the development of modern ways of thinking and the physical sta ...Show more
A Foot in the RiverWhy Our Lives Change - And the Limits of Evolution by Dr Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$40.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live - our m ...Show more
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1507 the cartographer Martin Waldseemuller published a world map with a new continent on it which he called America', after the explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci. The map was a phenomenal success and when Mercator's 1538 world map extended the name to the northern hemisphere of the continent, t ...Show more
Food: A History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$25.00 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Reading Level: very good
Starting with the notion of our decision to cook our food, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto introduces us to the revolutions which influenced our culinary habits, and he describes how food changed and changed us through the centuries, on the way explaining why. Paperback (B-Format)
Pathfinders by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$79.95 AUD
Category: History
Explorers forged the infrastructure of global history, first by finding the routes of migration that sundered human cultures, then - after millennia of divergence - by finding the routes that linked them up again. Pathfinders tells the epic story of how the route-finders did it: who they were, where the ...Show more
So You Think You're Human? by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have always been, human. Chimps and humans are objectivel ...Show more
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022_______________'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator'The ride is thrilling ... a work of serious scholarship' - Sunday Telegraph_______________For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been ...Show more
The Americas by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$21.95 AUD
Category: History
A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians.With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the enlightened `first world' United States and Canada, and l ...Show more
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