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A Great Improvisation - Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
$27.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France. So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin–seventy years old, withou ...Show more
Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
Six months after America declared her independence, Congress dispatched Benjamin Franklin to France to solicit aid and arms for the upcoming fight. He was seventy years old, possessed of the most rudimentary French and had no diplomatic training. But this most remarkable of envoys was also among the mos ...Show more
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poi ...Show more
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy ...Show more
The Witches - Salem, 1692 - A History by Stacy Schiff
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated m ...Show more
The Witches: Salem, 1692 - A History by Stacy Schiff
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ...Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a ...Show more
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