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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 ...
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack Obama
What makes ...
A free-ranging survey of the huge impact that the domesticated ungulates of the genus Ovis have had on human history.
'This book deserves a place ...
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and hated enemy of the Deaf community.
A revelatory revisionist biography of ...
'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller ...
Napoleon, Nelson, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Marshall, de Gaulle, Eisenhower and Thatcher- each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war their nation was ...
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright
In The Map of ...
Tthe extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled.
From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were ...
There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had ...
Who wore the first pants?
Who painted the first masterpiece?
Who first rode the horse?
This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern ...
'An absolutely riveting book - reading it makes you intelligent, full of brilliant anecdotes - and very hungry indeed.' - Richard Curtis
'This brilliantly conceived and well-researched book ...
A celebration of William Guilfoyle-botanist, landscape designer, tourist and writer
Explore the grand gardens and forests of Europe and Britain with esteemed landscape designer William ...
An international bestseller, covering 2 million years of human history in 250 pages, which proves that migration has always been essential to our survival.
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It is impossible to understand the last 75 years of British and American history without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, and specifically the bonds between presidents ...