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An authoritative and entertaining account of the earliest ambassadors, who were at once diplomats, explorers and chroniclers of exotic civilisations.In this book of extraordinary …

His opponents - including editors, union representatives, lawyers and judges - were beaten into submission. Caroline Moorehead draws readers into the lives of this remarkable …

First published in 1952 and 1955, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain remains a classic in Canadian arts and letters. Described as the greatest biography …

The Land of Black Opals.In this book, Ion Idriess tells of his beginnings, of his childhood in Lismore, Tamworth and Broken Hill, of his apprenticeship in bushcraft, and of the …

Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English. …

This series of English History Source Books is intended for use with any ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has conclusively shown that such apparatus is a …

In the early hours of 15 April 1912, the Cunard steamship Carpathia receives a distress call from the new White Star liner Titanic. Captain Arthur Rostron immediately turns …

The mysteries of bee life are illuminated for beekeepers, entomologists and students of natural history in general.The complex and wonderful organisation of the honeybee has …

Inmitten der Wirren des Dreißigjährigen Krieges lässt sich der Buchdruckergeselle Michael Wagner in Innsbruck nieder. Wenig später hält Wagner einen Brief der Tiroler Landesfürstin …

Arnold J. Toynbee’s voluminous studies of world history embraced every civilization and religion of the past and present. His general theory of the rise and fall of cultures …