The Great Wall by Elizabeth Mann
14.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Imagine a wall 30 feet high, a wall thousands of miles long, a wall that crossed deserts and climbed over impossibly jagged peaks, a wall that contained thousands of individual forts and towers, a wall that was guarded by a million soldiers, a wall that took over 200 years to build. This is the story of ...Show more
Egypt (HB) by Regine Schultz
49.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Roman emperors, Arab scholars, and early travellers were already drawn to and enchanted by the fascination of the land along the Nile. The pyramids of Giza, the temple-city of Karnak, or the Valley of the Kings with the grave of Tutankhamen even today maintain their extraordinary force of attraction.Acr ...Show more
History Year by Year: A journey through time, from mammoths and mummies to flying and facebook by DK
45.00 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Travel through the ages, year by year, in this visual history for children told on a timeline that stretches from prehistoric times to the modern day. In this updated volume, the historic timeline reaches to the present day, documenting recent events, including the Syrian War and the continuing explorat ...Show more
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (PB) by Robin Jones
52.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Three names. Three people in one. Born in Portsmouth on 9 April 1806, there was Brunel the great engineer, who would habitually throw out the rule book of tradition and established practice, and start again with a blank sheet of paper, taking the technology of the day to its lim ...Show more
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
34.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on ...Show more
Nordic Runes: Understanding Casting and Interpreting the Ancient Viking Oracle by Paul Rhys Mountford
45.00 AUD
Category: History & Humanities
Nordic runes are a potent and profoundly transformative magic system that gives contemporary readers access to the ancient wisdom tradition of Northern European cultures. The runes have deep resonances within the pagan Norse world of gods and goddesses, giants, dwarves, warriors, and wizards, which have ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
27.99 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more