The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Early History
'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great - one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earl ...Show more
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo by Paul Strathern
$27.99 NZD
Category: Early History
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a complete ...Show more
Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials by Alice Roberts
$26.99 NZD
Category: Early History
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today.'This is a terrific, timely and transporting book - taking us he ...Show more
River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Catrine Jarman
$27.99 NZD
Category: Early History
The Sunday Times bestseller'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell'Replete with witches, human sacrifice, Greek fire and funeral orgies... one of the most thrilling works of archaeological detective work I have ever read' William Dalrymple, FT Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman - and the cutting- ...Show more
The Rise Of Rome by Anthony Everitt
$24.99 NZD
Category: Early History
A complete account of the ascent of Rome - from agrarian backwater to capital of the world's greatest empire. A gripping account of the ascent of Rome - from agrarian backwater to capital of the world's greatest empire. 'An elegant, swift and faultless introduction to the subject' The Spectator Sta ...Show more
The Borgias: Power and Fortune by Paul Strathern
$28.00 NZD
Category: Early History
The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family--a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners--set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty--all ...Show more
Restoration London by Liza Picard
$31.99 NZD
Category: Early History
Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and ...Show more
Ten Caesars - Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
$35.00 NZD
Category: Early History | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)--a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the ...Show more
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