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Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival by Joan Druett
RRP: £12.99£9.96"Riveting." -The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best-and at its worst. It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave's... -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: £12.99£8.71Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history 'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan ... -
The Great Race: 60 years of the Bathurst 1000 by Aaron Noonan 9781460763568
RRP: £16.99£11.47The cars, the stars, the thrills and the spills from 60 years of the Bathurst classic by Australia's premier motorsports journalist with a foreword by five-time winner Garth Tander The Bathurst 1000 is undoubtedly Australia's 'Great Race', forever part... -
The Bodyline Fix: How Women Saved Cricket by Marion Stell 9780702265785
RRP: £19.99£14.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702265785Author Marion StellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams) 153g -
Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island by Steven Roger Fischer 9781861892829
£21.26Famed for its breathtaking isolation, Easter Island was a verdant South-Sea idyll when a small canoeful of Polynesians arrived in c. AD 700. Centuries later the island's statues were famous throughout the world. This book presents a comprehensive history... -
Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid by Gregory Forth
RRP: £22.00£14.05A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrum-and whether or not they still survive.While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780199315987
RRP: £17.99£15.23There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
The Bridge: The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
RRP: £25.00£16.85Ninety years on from its opening in 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge remains the most recognisable symbol of Australia. The iconic arch took almost nine years to complete - at a cost of sixteen lives and more than six million pounds - and the people,... -
Early Pacific Raids 1942: The American Carriers Strike Back by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £16.99£12.47A fascinating exploration of how between February 1 and March 10, 1942, three small US task forces launched several unexpected raids across the Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central and South Pacific. After the devastating Japanese blows of... -
A Pattern of Islands Arthur Grimble 9781906011451
RRP: £14.99£10.05"A Pattern of Islands" is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he... -
Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds by Stuart Kells 9780522877250
RRP: £37.95£22.77The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world's largest diamond company, sent gem-hunters to the area but they came away empty-handed. It was a vast region to survey, and they'd... -
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
RRP: £16.99£11.47The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the... -
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 2: War and Diplomacy by Lawrence Freedman 9780415419116
RRP: £47.99£42.81In the second volume of his official history of the Falklands Campaign, Lawrence Freedman provides a detailed and authoritative account of one of the most extraordinary periods in recent British political history and a vivid portrayal of a government at... -
A Disappearance in Fiji: A charming debut historical mystery set in 1914 Fiji by Nilima Rao 9781804183007
RRP: £8.99£6.42A charming debut historical mystery set in 1914 Fiji. Perfect for fans of Abir Mukherjee, Vaseem Khan and Sujata Massey.'AN UTTERLY CHARMING NOVEL ... NILIMA RAO IS AN AUTHOR WELL WORTH DISCOVERING' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH'AN EXCEPTIONALLY PROMISING... -
The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier by Tim Flannery
£13.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137197Author Tim FlanneryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £27.49£20.28By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of... -
Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire Nicholas Thomas 9780300180565
RRP: £16.99£14.61An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain... -
Invasion 1982: the Falkland Islanders' Story by Graham Bound 9781473853430
RRP: £12.99£9.34Falkland Islanders were the first British people to come under enemy occupation since the Channel Islanders during the Second World War. This book tells how islanders' warnings were ignored in London, how their slim defences gave way to a massive... -
Australia: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Kenneth Morgan
RRP: £8.99£6.65In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia. He examines the main features of its history, geography, and culture since the beginning of the white settlement in New South Wales in... -
The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa Dale Dye 9781472810618
RRP: £12.99£9.34Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor... -
The Mighty 747: Australia's Queen of the Skies by Jim Eames
RRP: £16.99£12.47'We have decided we must have the 747.' - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew millions of people to Australia, overseas for work, back to their homelands, on holiday and out of danger. For... -
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler 9780691146362
RRP: £30.00£23.29Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the... -
Australian History For Dummies Alex McDermott (Historian and research scholar at La Trobe University, Victoria) 9780730395454
RRP: £20.50£14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730395454Author Alex McDermottFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)... -
The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia by Adrienne L. Kaeppler 9780192842381
RRP: £23.49£16.61The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of this vast ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral... -
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise Willard A. Hanna 9780804847315
RRP: £13.99£9.44This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and... -
War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Harry Gailey 9780891416166
£17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891416166Author Harry GaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio PressWeight(grams) 653g -
Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of John Pryor Ruthy Gertwagen 9781138118324
RRP: £43.99£38.84The cutting-edge papers in this collection reflect the wide areas to which John Pryor has made significant contributions in the course of his scholarly career. They are written by some of the world's most distinguished practitioners in the fields of... -
The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush by David Igler
RRP: £31.99£22.91The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global... -
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson 9780060555597
RRP: £14.99£11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060555597Author Trevor CorsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Lighthouse: An Illuminating History of the World's Coastal Sentinels by R G Grant 9780316414470
RRP: £27.99£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316414470Author R G GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersPublisher Black Dog & Leventhal PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Titanic the Ship Magnificent - Volume One: Design & Construction by Bruce Beveridge 9780750968317
RRP: £75.00£57.70The largest, most luxurious ship in the world, lost on her maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg in mid-Atlantic, Titanic has become the stuff of legends. Built at the peak of the race between the British, French and Germans to build bigger and... -
Do Miners Read Dickens?: The Origins and Progress of the South Wales Miners' Library by Hywel Francis 9781909844445
RRP: £50.00£41.27In 1983, two University Professors looked slightly bemused as they scanned the shelves of the South Wales Miners' Library. One said to the other, 'Do miners read Dickens?' We seek to answer that question, and a little more besides. This special fortieth... -
Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator by Jason M. Colby
RRP: £18.49£15.91Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to... -
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas 9781803284637
RRP: £12.99£9.34The 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... -
Daring French Explorations: Trailblazing Adventures around the World: 1714-1854, Featuring Bougainville, Laperouse, Dumont d'Urville, and more Hubert Sagnieres 9782080428455
RRP: £65.00£44.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080428455Author Hubert SagnieresFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 3000g -
Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba by Katerina Martina Teaiwa 9780253014528
RRP: £21.99£19.19Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was... -
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell 9780316309301
RRP: £18.99£16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316309301Author Malcolm GladwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman 9780312429706
RRP: £24.00£16.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312429706Author Michael NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: £30.00£19.35Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally... -
Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator by Jason M. Colby 9780190673093
RRP: £24.99£18.46Orcas are the most profitable and controversial display animal in history, and since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on their plight. Yet no historical account has explored how we came to care...