Viking Women: Life and Lore by Lisa Hannett
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world.How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings - not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In this gro ...Show more
Vintage Knits: 25 Classic Patterns for Modern Knitters by National Library of Australia
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
People of the past knew the magic of a handmade garment — the uniqueness, the custom fit, the time and care taken by the knitter. In today’s world of mass-production, we now crave the individuality and satisfaction that comes with creating a piece of clothing for ourselves or a loved one from scratch.Kn ...Show more
Vital Organs by Suzie Edge
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than r ...Show more
Việt Nam A History from Earliest Times to the Present by Ben Kiernan
$44.95 AUD
Category: History
For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich history of the peoples who have inhabited the land no ...Show more
Voices From Chernobyl (U.S. title - SAME book as Chernobyl Prayer) by Keith (TRN) Svetlana; Gessen Alexievich
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lannan Selection Ser.
A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. Svetlana Alexievich won ...Show more
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some a ...Show more
Votes for Women: Voices of the Suffragettes by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) Staff (Contribution by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
A century after the first women were given the vote in Britain, this remarkable book presents a wealth of observations by and about the leading protagonists of the suffrage movement, beautifully illustrated with their portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London. Combining the portraits of, and ...Show more
Vox Populi - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A witty and engaging beginner's guide to the Classics, by the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici and Eureka!
Voyagers: The settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | 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
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, and beyond. They have accompanied the rise of cities, nations, and empires. And yet ...Show more
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing--of being--articulated by ten pathfinding women writers. "A wild portrayal of the passion and spirit of female walkers and the deep sense of 'knowing' that they found along the path."--Raynor Wi ...Show more
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a militar ...Show more