100 Days That Mapped a Nation by Graeme Lay
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
October 2019 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s first landfall in New Zealand. One Hundred Days that Mapped a Nation marks this historic occasion by looking at Cook’s intrepid journeys to New Zealand and the Pacific that were unprecedented for the time and had such far-reaching conseque ...Show more
100 Years Lives by Wairarapa Archive Staff (Contribution by); Wairarapa Times-Age Co. Staff (Contribution by)
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Category: History
1000 Events That Shaped the World by Judith Klein
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
What are the 1,000 events, through all time and from all places, that have been most influential in shaping the world in which we live today? From that starting point, the book's creators - a team of veteran writers and editors - have developed a volume rich in content and visuals. Every spread pops off ...Show more
101 Stumbles in the March of History: What If the Great Mistakes in War, Government, Industry, and Economics Were Not Made? by Bill Fawcett
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Bill Fawcett, author of 100 Mistakes That Changed History (Penguin, 2010), offers a new compendium of 101 mammoth mistakes - from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for WMDs in Iraq - that will, unfortunately, never be forgotten by history.
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed - Revised and Updated by Eric H. Cline
$34.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Turning Points in Ancient History Ser.
From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilised world ushered in the first Dark Ages. In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the 'Sea Peoples' invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victo ...Show more
12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery by Solomon Northup
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Tricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York State in 1841, Solomon Northup was drugged and kidnapped. His life in jeopardy, he was forced to assume a new name and fake past. Taken to Louisiana on a disease-ridden plague ship, he was initially sold to a cotton planter. In the twelve y ...Show more
1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
On 8 February 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, 500 foot long junks made from the finest teak and mahogany, were led by Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from ...Show more
150 Years of Photo Journalism by Nick Yapp
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Category: History
Getty Images has one of the most important photo collections in the world. The fascinating black-and-white and color photographs in this volume lead observers through almost two centuries of the history of photo journalism. Including both everyday life and the grandest events, the ideals and fears of th ...Show more
1536 by Suzannah Lipscomb
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
One of the best-known figures of British history, collective memory of Henry VIII presents us with the image of a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few parallels, whose wives met infamously premature ends, and whose religion was ever political in intent.Moving be ...Show more
17 Carnations - The Windsors, the Nazis and the Cover-Up by Andrew Morton
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The story of the love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII, and his abdication in order to marry the divorcee, has provoked fascination and discussion for decades. However, the full story of the couple's links with the German aristocracy and Hitler has until now remained untold. Meticulous ...Show more
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski
$26.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history. In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating ...Show more
1861 THE CIVIL WAR AWAKENING by GOODHEART ADAM
$31.99 NZD
Category: History
As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new ge ...Show more