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In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony who ...
A UNIQUELY FASCINATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF A CONTINENT AND ITS PEOPLES
Immerse yourself in the intricate story of Africa and discover Africa's ...
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This book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel. September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England ...
A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the intellectual, social and cultural world of Renaissance Europe
At the ...
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023
'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe ...
From fossil-hunting to the end of faith- a gripping narrative history of the seventy-five-year culture war that transformed how we think about the universe and ...
Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has dedicated his life to his community, in this moving memoir ...
The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins.
The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's ...
In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory ...
Finding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human. Since the ...
We are all too familiar with the stories of Jews who were tortured and killed in concentration camps throughout the Third Reich. But less is ...
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was ...
This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New York to the ...