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Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe... -
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest by Fernando Cervantes
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $30.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101981269Author Fernando CervantesFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint -
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John UpdikeDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape... -
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 9780099540960
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONSDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in,... -
The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire by Andrew Wheatcroft
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The Habsburgs have been described at one extreme as demons - responsible for a 'long history of atrocities'; and, at the other, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. In... -
You Dreamed of Empires Álvaro Enrigue 9781529920659
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.71'An Aztec West Wing' GUARDIAN'A triumph' FINANCIAL TIMES'A mischievous fantasy' TLS'Glorious' i-DIn 1519, Conquistador Hernan Cortes and his troops ride into the floating city of Tenoxtitlan -... -
After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'She has a talent amounting to genius' John UpdikeDon Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Dona Ana, the woman... -
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast - Shortlisted for the 2021 Cundill History Prize - Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize by Marjoleine Kars
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping human story' Washington Post '[An] epic history ... a sweeping,... -
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast Marjoleine Kars 9781800812284
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $5.49THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A gripping tale about the human need for freedom ..... -
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.05The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age. Inspired by... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee 9780008358259
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.08A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.52A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward... -
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _______________ 'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator 'The ride is... -
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J. H. Elliott
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.41This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H...