The Wager by David Grann
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on ...Show more
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard
$75.00 NZD
Category: World History
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar ( ...Show more
History of the World Map by Map by DK
$75.00 NZD
Category: World History
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action an ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$42.00 NZD
Category: World History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
China and Russia - Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord by Philip Snow
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the presentRussia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In addition to a four-thousand-kilome ...Show more
History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them by Stephen Weir
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
"This is a new illustrated, paperback edition of the best-selling History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them, one of the very successful popular history titles on the Pier 9 list. History is a catalogue of errors and History's Worst Decisions shines a light on fifty of the biggest. From the ...Show more
Jack's Journey by Trish McCormack (Andrew Gibson co-editor)
$36.00 NZD
Category: World History
When Jack Pryce sailed to war in 1915 with the Otago Infantry Battalion he was restless, wanting to "make good" of his life. Experiencing the carnage of Gallipoli and Passchendaele and other epic battles on the Western Front, he rose through the ranks to gain his commission. From the hell of the trenche ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims ...Show more
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths | Reading Level: very good
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. ...Show more
Normal Women - 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
$65.00 NZD
Category: World History
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE'S WORK.Normal Women is a radical retelling of our nation's story - not of the rise and fall of kings and the occasional queen - but of social and cultural change, powered by the determination, persistence and effect ...Show more