On The Laps Of Gods- Robert Whitaker

Summer 1919 an atrocity against black farmers brings about a new struggle for justice.
This book will shock you.
Softcover,2009,383 pgs.
ISBN-9780307339836
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Ice Master- Jennifer Niven

An account of one of the most ambitious and disastrous Artic scientific expeditions.
Softcover,2000,394 pgs.
ISBN- 0330391232
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

A Treasury Of Deception- Michael Farquhar

True stories of history's greatest hoaxes,fakes and frauds.
Softcover,2005,287 pgs.
ISBN- 0143035444
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

A Treasury Of Royal Scandals- Michael Farquhar

True stories of history's wickedest,weirdest,most wanton Kings,Queens,Tsars,Popes and Emporers.
Softcover,2001,323 pgs.
ISBN- 0140280243
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Singing Line- Alice Thomson

The story of the man who strung the telegraph across Australia and the woman who gave her name to Alice Springs.
Softcover,1999,292 pgs.
ISBN- 070116493X
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Krakatoa- Simon Winchester

27 August 1883- The day the world exploded.
Softcover,2004,431 pgs.
ISBN- 0141005173
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Fitzroy- John & Mary Gribbin

The remarkable story of Darwin's captain and the invention of the weather forecast.
Softcover,2004,336 pgs.
ISBN- 0755311825
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

A Shorter History Of Australia- Geoffrey Blainey

Softcover,1994,259 pgs.
ISBN- 1863304606
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Big Chief Elizabeth- Giles Milton

How Eizabeth 1's adventurers gambled and won the new world.
Softcover,2000,416 pgs.
ISBN- 0340748826
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

In The Lion's Court- Derek Wilson

Power,ambition and sudden death in the reign of Henry VIII.
Softcover,2002,580 pgs.
ISBN-0712665293
Condition-B

Price: NZ $10.00

Wellington's Smallest Victory- Peter Hofschroer

The Duke,the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo.
Hardback with dj,2004,324 pgs.
ISBN- 0571217680

Price: NZ $10.00

A Shortened History Of England- G.M.Trevelyan

Softcover,1987,603 pgs.
ISBN- 0140102418
Condition- D

Price: NZ $8.00

The World's Worst Historical Disasters- Chris McNab

Chronicles the greatest disasters of all time.
Softcover,2007,320 pgs.
ISBN- 9781905704408
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Deliverance- Don Greenlees & Robert Garran

The inside story on East Timor's fight for freedom.
Softcover,2002,375 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Lucia In The Age Of Napoleon-Andrea Di Robilant

Portrait of a daughter of a Venetian statesman who married well and dazzled as a hostess in Hapsburg Vienna and ended up a hard-nosed landlady to Lord Byron.
Trade pb,2007,336 pgs.
ISBN- 9780571233182
Condition- B

Price: NZ $18.00

Marie Antionette- John.E.N Hearsey

Illustrated biography.
Heron Books hardback,1969,367 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Catherine The Great-Zoe Oldenbourg

Illustrated biography.
Heron Books hardback,1968,354 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Lucrecia Borgia- John Haslip

Illustrated biography.
Heron Books hardback,1968,334 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Empress Eugenie- Alfred Leroy

Illustrated biography.
Heron Books hardback,1969,401 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

George Sand- J.M.Scott

Illustrated biography.
Heron Books hardback,1969,317 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Mata Hari- Ronald Millar

Illustrated biography.
Heron Books hardback,1970,252 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Maria Theresa- Paul Tabori

Illustrated biography.
Heron Books hardback,1969,504 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Madame De Maintenon- Peter De Polnay

Illustrated biography.
Heron Books hardback,1969,336 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Pankhursts- David Mitchell

Illustrated biography.
Heron Books hardback,1970,340 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Lady Hester Stanhope- Joan Haslip

Illustrated biography.
Heron Books hardback,1970,323 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Great Shame- Thomas Keneally

A story of the Irish in the old world and the new.
Trade pb,1998,731 pgs.
ISBN- 009184020I
Condition- C

Price: NZ $20.00

Heln Of Troy- Bettany Hughes

Goddess,Princess,Whore- who was the real Helen Of Troy ?
Hardback with dj,2005,458 pgs.
ISBN- 0224071777
Condition- A

Price: NZ $20.00

Churchill's Cigar- Stephen McGinty

Churchill's lifetime love affair with the cigar.
Hardback with dj,2007,212 pgs.
ISBN- 9780230528925
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Anne Boleyn- Carolly Erickson

Lost her head over Henry.
Hardback with dj,1984,288 pgs.
ISBN- 033337178X
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Disraeli- Sarah Bradford

Biography of one of Britain's greatest Prime Ministers.
Hardback with dj,1982,432 pgs.
ISBN- 0812828992
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Memoirs Of Hadrian- Marguerite Yourcenar

The Emporer Hadrian AD 76-138.
A "ghosted" autobiography.
Hardback with dj,1955,320 pgs.
Condition - C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Early Stuarts 1603-1660- Godfrey Davies

Hardback,nodj,1952,452 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Stuarts- J.P.Kenyon

A study in English Kingship.
From James I to Anne.
Hardback with dj,1958,240 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Charles II- Antonia Fraser

Illustrated biography.
Hardback with dj,1979,524 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Bismark- Werner Richter

Biography of Germany's iron Chancellor.
Hardback with dj,1962,420 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Peter The Great - Robert K.Massie

His Life And World.
Softcover,1980,909 pgs.
ISBN- 0345298063
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

From Third World To First- Lee Kuan Yew

The Singapore Story 1965-2000.
Hardback with dj,2000,729 pgs.
ISBN- 0060197765
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Winston Churchill The Wilderness Years- Martin Gilbert

The 10 years preceeding WWII when Curchill was alone and isolated in British politics.
Hardback with dj,1981,279 pgs.
ISBN- 0333325648
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Lost Gods Of Albion- Paul Newman

The Chalk Hill Figures Of Britain.
Softcover,1997,216 pgs.
ISBN- 075091792X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Wild Swans- Jung Chang

The story of three generations od Chinese women through the turbulent years of the twentieth century.
Paperback,1991,696 pgs.
ISBN- 0006374921
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Royal Geographic Society- History Of World Exploration

A fantastic reference of the great explorers and their journeys.
Large illustrated hardback with dj,1991,320 pgs.
ISBN- 9780792453253
Condition- B

Price: NZ $19.00

Walking With Cavemen- John Lynch & Louise Barrett

Eye-To-Eye with your ancestors.
Large illustrated hardback,2003,224 pgs.
ISBN- 0755311779
Condition- B

Price: NZ $19.00

Gibbon's decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

Abridged and illustrated version.
Large hardback,1982,256 pgs.
ISBN- 0861240227
Condition- C

Price: NZ $19.00

The Trial Of The Cannibal Dog- Anne Salmond

Captain Cook In The South Seas.
Trade pb,2004,506 pgs.
ISBN- 0141021330
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Nicholas And Alexandra- Robert K.Massie

An intimate account of the last of the Romanovs.
Hardback with dj,1971,575 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Diaries Of Lord Louis Mountbatten

1920-1922 Tours with the Prince Of Wales.
Hardback with dj,1987,315 pgs.
ISBN- 0002176084
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Jennie- Anita Leslie

The life of Lady Randolph Churchill.
Softcover,1969,369 pgs.
ISBN- 0099095300
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

King Edward VII- Philip Ziegler

The Official Biography.
Hardback with dj,1990,654 pgs.
ISBN- 0002157411
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

When Brooklyn Was The World- Elliot Willensky

An illustrated look at Brooklyn in its heyday 1920-1957.
Hardback with dj,1986,239 pgs.
ISBN- 0517558580
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

The First Salute- Barbara Tuchman

A new look at the American Revolution.
Hardback with dj,1988,347 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Queen Victoria's Sketchbook- Marina Warner

A look at Queen Victoria's privta elife through her art work.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1979,224 pgs.
ISBN- 0333271327
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

A Short History Of Australia- Manning Clark

Revised Illustrated edition.
Large softcover,1986,260 pgs.
ISBN- 0140097228
Condition - B

Price: NZ $12.00

Liberty !- Thomas Fleming

An illustrated account of the American Revolution.
Large softcover,1997,394 pgs.
ISBN- 0965067085
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

The English Reformation- A.G.Dickens

One of the classic accounts of the period.
Hardback with dj,1989,461 pgs.
ISBN- 0713436697
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

A Persian in The Court Of King George 1809-10.

The Journal Of Mirza Abul Hassan Khan.
Hardback with dj,1988,318 pgs.
ISBN- 0712621059
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Karl Marx- David McLellan

His Life And Thought.
Softcover,1973,498 pgs.
ISBN- 333154258
Condition -C

Price: NZ $8.00

From Merciless Invaders- Alexander McKee

The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada.
Hardback with dj,1987,288.
ISBN- 0285627953
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Queen Victoria- Giles St Aubyn

Portrait of a great Queen.
Hardback with dj,1991,669 pgs.
ISBN- 1856190862
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

The Rise And Fall Of The British Nanny- J Gathorne-Hardy

A look at a British institution.
Hardback with dj,1972,350 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Hope And Glory- Peter Clarke

Britain 1900-1990.
Political history in narrative form.
Softcover,1996,454 pgs.
ISBN- 0140148302
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

To Father- Translated and Annotated by Dava Sobel

The letters of Sister Maria Celeste to her father- Galileo.
Softcover,2002,354 pgs.
ISBN- 1841157252
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Age Of Elegance- Arthur Bryant

A history of the Regency period 1812-1822.
Hardback with dj,1954,439 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Makers Of The Realm- Arthur Bryant

Great men in English history.
Hardback with dj,1955,413 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Remarkable Expedition- Olivia Manning

The story of Stanley's rescue of Emin Pasha from Equatorial Africa.
Hardback with dj,1985,275 pgs.
ISBN- 0297785664
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

Edited by Frederick A Pottle.
Printed 1951,370 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

A History Of Europe- JM Roberts

From pre-history to modern times.
Softcover,1996,628 pgs.
ISBN- 1859861784
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Britannia - Sheppard Frere

A history of Roman Britain.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1987,423 pgs.
ISBN-0710212151
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

Dead Silence- Geiger & Beattie

Solving the mystery of the dissaperaance in 1719 of the two mships Albany and Discovery in the Hudson Bay.
Hardback with dj,1993,218 pgs.
ISBN- 0747511853
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

The Caliban Shore- Stephen Taylor

The fate of castaways shipwrecked on the wild coast of South Africa in the 18th century.
Trade pb,2004,297 pgs.
ISBN- 0571223303
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Grandeur That Was Rome- J.C.Stobart

Roman culture and civilisation.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1987,322 pgs.
ISBN- 0283353236
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Spendour That Was Egypt- Margaret A.Murray

The main elemenst of Egyptian civilisation.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1987,256 pgs.
ISBN- 0283354305
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

100 Great Adventures- Ed. by John Canning

100 of the greatest adventures over the last 3000 years.
Hardback with dj,2003,672 pgs.
ISBN- 0753708655
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

50 Great Journeys- Ed.by john Canning

50 of the greatest journeys ever undertaken.
Hardback with dj,2003,535 pgs.
ISBN- 0753708647
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Waterloo- Christopher Hibbert

The battle that ended Napoleon's dream of a European empire.
Softcover,1998,280 pgs.
ISBN- 1853266876
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

The Dreadful Judgement- Neill Hanson

The true story of the Fire Of London.
Illustrated trade pb,2001,378 pgs.
ISBN- 0385604459
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Irish Rebels In English Prisons- O'Donovan Rossa

An account of the author's incarceration the English prison system in the mid-19th century.
Softcover,1991,314 pgs.
ISBN- 0863221254
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The European Family- Mitterauer & Siedler

Patriarchy To Partnership from the Middle Ages to the Present.
Softcover,1982,235 pgs.
ISBN- 0631129235
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Burke's Reflections On The Revolution In France

Written immediately after the French Revolution, Burke’s primary antirevolutionary work questions the motives of the actors and warns against the pulling down of all that is good in society with the bad, which would prove amazingly prophetic.
Small hardback,circa 1920's,314 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Knife Man- Wendy Moore

Blood,Body-Snatching and the Birth of modern Surgery.
Illustrated softcover,2006,638 pgs.
Small pen marks on spine.
Condition- B
ISBN- 0553816187

Price: NZ $10.00

The Pirates Of The Brig Cyprus

In 1827 off the coast of Van Diemens Land convicts mutiny and take control of the Brig Cyprus and begin an epic voyage around the Pacific.
Hardback with dj,1962,205 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Oxford History Of The United States-Battle Cry Of Freedom:The Civil War Era- James M McPherson

A comprehensive and succinct account of the American Civil War.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1988,904 pgs.
ISBN- 0195038630
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

American Scoundrel- Thomas Keneally

On the last ,cold Sunday of Febuary 1859,Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square,just acroos from the Whitehouse.This is the story of that killing and is reercussions.
Softcover,2003,397 pgs.
ISBN- 0099285991
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Classical Greeks- Michael Grant

The golden age of the ancient greek city-state civilisation from 490 to 336 BC.
Trade pb,2001,307 pgs.
ISBN- 1842124471
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Crispin's Day- Rosemary Hawley Jarman

October 25,1415 a ragged,hungry English army inflicted a resounding defeat on the magnificently accoutred French- one of the most overwhelming victories in the chronicles of war.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1979,223 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

The Men Of Liberty- Claude Manceron

Europe on the eve of the French Revolution 1774-1778.
Hardback with dj,1977,650 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

The Great Enterprise- Stephen Usherwood

The story of the Spanish Armada as revealed by contemporary documents.
Hardback,1978,190 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Journey To Pitcairn- Frank Clune

The story of the Bounty mutineers and their descendants.
Hardback with dj,1966,244 pgs.
Condition- C
DJ a bit tatty around edges.

Price: NZ $12.00

Europe A History- Norman Davies

From the Ice Age to the Cold War.
Softcover,1997,1365 pgs.
ISBN- 0712666338
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

The Siege Of Berlin- Mark Arnold-Forster

War-ravaged Berlin struggles to rebuild and survive the Soviet blockade.
Hardback with dj,1979,172 pgs.
ISBN- 0002167395
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Captain Cook The Seaman's Seaman- Alan Villiers

Biography of the greatest explorer of his time and one of the greatest navigators of all time.
Softcover,2001,250 pgs.
ISBN- 014139062X
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Time-Life History Of The World- The Nuclear Age AD 1950-1990

The Cold War*Europe Rises From The Ashes*China:Mao And After*Africa's Winds Of Change*The Middle Eastern Powder Keg*Japan's Empire Of Commerce.
Illustrated hardback,1991,175 pgs.
ISBN-0705409880
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Time-Life History Of The World- The Domestic World

The Invention Of Home Life*At The Medieval Hearth*A Family Domain*A Castle For Everybody
Illustrated hardback,1991,175 pgs.
ISBN- 0705409945
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Time-Life History Of The World-A Soring Spirit 800-400BC

Persia At The Crest*The Hellenic Unfolding*Dawn Of The Romans*Enlightenment In The East.
Illustrated hardback,1991,175 pgs.
ISBN- 0705409724
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Time-Life History Of The World-The Natural World

Out Of The Wilderness*The Mediterranean World*The Chinese Way*The Plough And The Cross*Expansion And Exchange*The Global Challenge.
Illustrated hardback,1991,175 pgs.
ISBN- 0705409929
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Time-Life History Of The World-The Pulse Of Enterprise AD 1800-1850

Bonaparte's Empire*Industrial Britain*Liberation Of Latin America*The Opening Of China*The Struggle For Southern Africa.
Illustrated hardback,1991,175 pgs.
ISBN- 0705409856
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Time-Life History Of The World-Voyages Of Discovery AD 1400-1500

The Ocean Adventurers*The Italian Renaissance*The Fall Of Constantinople*Bohemia's Holy Wars*The Last Great Hindu empire*Lost Empires Of The Americas.
Illustrated hardback,1992,175 pgs.
ISBN- 0705409813
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Time-Life History Of The World-The Age Of God-Kings 3000-1500 BC

Breakthrough At Sumer*The Way Of The Pharoahs*The Empire On The Aegean*Stirrings In Asia.
Illustrated hardback,1992,175 pgs.
ISBN- 0705409708
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Time-Life History Of The World- Barbarian Tides 1500-600BC

The Aggressive Empires*Egypt's Golden Age*The Greek Crucible*The Mediterranean Traders*Asian Evolutions*Awakening In The Americas
Illustrated hardback,1992,175 pgs.
ISBN- 0705409716
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Time-Life History Of The World-Empires Besiged AD 200-600

The Roman Decline*Renewal In The Middle East*Chinese Kingdoms In Turmoil*A Vigorous New World.
Illustrated hardback,1991,175 pgs.
ISBN- 0705409740
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00