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The Command of the Ocean : A Naval history of Britain 1649-1815 by N.A.M. Rodger
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. Based on the author's own research in half a dozen languages over nearly a decade, and sy ...Show more
The Elizabethans by A N Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The acknowledged master of the all-encompassing single volume of history demonstrates the profound impact the Elizabethan age has had on contemporary Britain. With all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling study of The Victorians, A. N. Wilson relates the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan Age. It w ...Show more
The Elizabethans by A. N. Wilson
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
England under Elizabeth I: A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioner's block. But it was also an age that encouraged literary geniu ...Show more
The Hitopadesa by Narayana; A. Haksar (Foreword by); A. N. D. Haksar (Introduction by, Translator); Haksar Narayana; A. Haksar (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Black Classics Ser.
Widely read and beloved for more than a thousand years, the Hitopadesa (Book of Good Counsels) is an anthology of folk wisdom that offers humorous and profound reflections on human lives and loves, philosophies and follies. Drawing on traditional sources, Narayana presents classic tales as narrated by a ...Show more
The Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy clay from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught up in the American rebellion, and fa ...Show more
The Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is A. N. Wilson's first novel for five years that tells the epic story of the Wedgwood dynasty. In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy ...Show more
The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
$79.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
We live in the world which the Victorians created. The 'global village' is a Victorian village. Their two great inventions go hand in hand: industrial capitalism, and imperialism. Historians in the past have tended to describe these two great facts in ideological, rather than in personal terms. A. N. Wi ...Show more
Tolstoy by A. N. Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marria ...Show more
Tuttle Concise Indonesian Dictionary by A. L. N. Kramer Sr.; Willie Koen; Katherine Davidsen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
This is the most up-to-date Indonesian Dictionary on the market Tuttle Concise Indonesian Dictionary has both Indonesian to English and English to Indonesian sections. Its compact size allows for easy transport without limiting the content. This Indonesian dictionary is perfect for Indonesian langua ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have said so. What emerged for me was a brave, original wo ...Show more
Winnie And Wolf : A novel by A N Wilson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Winnie and Wolf" is the story of the extraordinary relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years 1923-40, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner house in Bayreuth. Winifred, an English girl, brought up in an orphanage in East Grinstead, married ...Show more