Browse by category
Hadrian's Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall, by a bestselling author and expert on Ancient Rome. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretching from the east to ...Show more
Magna Carta - The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
$33.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled ...Show more
Railways by Christian Wolmar
$32.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: The\Landmark Library
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economi ...Show more
The Arab Conquests: The spread of Islam and the first caliphates by Justin Marozzi
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: The\Landmark Library
In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he h ...Show more
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
$29.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: The\Landmark Library
The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist'A refreshing addition to the canon of literature that contemplates Oceanic navig ...Show more
Voyagers: The settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: The\Landmark Library
From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. Thousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples, are scattered across the vastness of the Pacific. The first European explorers to visit Oceania, from the sixteenth ...Show more
1 - 6 of 6