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This is a comprehensive history of Portugal that covers the whole span, from the Stone Age to today. An introduction provides an understanding of geographical ...
Here, in one accessible volume, is Ray Parkin's highly acclaimed and multi-award winning study of Captain James Cook's Endeavour. This incomparable book is ...
Chinese culture is rich with marvelous folklore, and this exquisitely designed collection draws on that magnificent historical repository.
It features more than 200 fables and ...
In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's ...
Loving Country is a powerful and essential guidebook that offers a new way to travel and discover Australia through an Indigenous narrative. In this beautifully ...
The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the ...
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Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's ...
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appear
For freezing meteors and congealed cold.'
Christopher Marlowe
In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp ...
The Curse of Oak Island is high-quality narrative non-fiction from a top-shelf journalist, extrapolated from Randall Sullivan's successful 2004 Rolling Stone article of the ...
Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the ...
'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' - Sarah Bakewell
'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' - Sally Rooney
'I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering ...
In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but ...
In his last days, Mussolini, the tyrant, was in the grip of anger, shame, and depression. The German armed forces that had sustained his puppet ...
This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights ...
An accessible but hugely authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, published in time for the third and final book in ...