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India: A History by John Keay
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.92The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India - from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent's social, economic, political and cultural history... -
China: A History by John Keay 9780007221783
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €13.08Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese... -
China: A History by John Keay 9780465025183
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.66Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John... -
China: A History John Keay 9780008816858
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.77Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Honourable Company by John Keay 9780006380726
Booksplease Price: €17.84Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay 9781408891162
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And... -
The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places by John Keay 9781849013116
Booksplease Price: €30.50The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination and the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Not... -
India Discovered: The Recovery of a Lost Civilization by John Keay 9780007123001
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Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East by John Keay 9780393335088
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €30.42Sowing the Wind tells of how and why this happened. The subject is painful and essentially sombre, but John Keay illuminates it with lucid analysis and anecdotes. This is that rarest of works, a... -
Mad About the Mekong: Exploration and Empire in South East Asia by John Keay 9780007111152
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40The story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France's greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today. ... -
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named by John Keay 9780006531234
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian... -
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The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named by John Keay 9780006531234 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €3.57A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian... -
India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire by Jon Wilson 9781471101267
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'The product of many years of detailed archival research, Wilson's book is without question the best one-volume history of the Raj currently in print.' - William Dalrymple, The Guardian'The core of... -
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.86SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Financial Times Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________'Entertaining and well-paced... Platt's... -
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.90'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times 'Dynamic, original and supremely readable'... -
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.40In the tradition of Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational... -
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Ian Johnson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Masterfully opens up a little explored realm: how the quest for religion and spirituality drives hundreds of millions of Chinese' Pankaj Mishra'A fascinating odyssey ... a nuanced group portrait of... -
Incarnations: A History of India in 50 Lives by Sunil Khilnani
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Incarnations makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after'... -
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination by Robert Bickers
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.79SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEThe extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today.Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be... -
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper 9780241957943
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021AN ECONOMIST AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Compelling and highly original ... The Asia that we see today is the product of the 'underground'... -
Why Taiwan Matters: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future Kerry Brown 9780241694305
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters - for China, the West and everyone's future'An authoritative primer to all things Taiwan' BARBARA DEMICK * 'A must-read for all who are concerned... -
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58*SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020*Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of... -
Xi Jinping: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.00'Kerry Brown's Xi is the perfect primer for understanding Xi Jinping's status as China's greatest ruler since Mao and as this century's least assailable statesman' John Keay, author of China: A... -
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert Bickers
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the... -
India: A Short History Andrew Robinson 9780500298251
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Pithy, admirable ... a most refreshing resume' The Times Literary Supplement India has had many histories. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha; to Alexander the... -
Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity Victoria Glendinning 9781788160902
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.32By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the founder of Singapore and Governor of Java, having left school in his early teens to become a clerk for the British East India... -
The Near East: A Cultural History by Arthur Cotterell
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €23.56This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the... -
Legacy Rose Gan 9781915310200
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The family of Francis Light faces an uncertain future. As Penang heads inexorably towards colonial rule, Martinha struggles to claim herrightful inheritance, encountering corruption, prejudice and... -
A Short History of Beijing by Jonathan Clements 9781913368463
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.22Before China's capital became a sprawling megacity and international centre of business and culture, its fortunes fluctuated under a dozen dynasties. It has been a capital for several states,... -
Mother of the World: The Remarkable History of Turkmenistan Olivier Hein 9781805265818
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.59Reclaiming Turkmenistan from the margins of global attention, Hein offers a lively history of the 'Mother of the World' and its people. These days, it's rare for news items to come out of... -
Till Kingdom Come by Lokesh Ohri 9781438482569
Booksplease Price: €33.59The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.Hinduism, as is well known, has taken a... -
Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya by Lokesh Ohri 9781438482552
RRP: €86.28Booksplease Price: €82.84The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.Hinduism, as is well known, has taken a... -
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900 by Charles Allen
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.76Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the... -
Marram: Memories of Sea and Spider Silk by Leonie Charlton
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Seven years after her mother's death, Leonie Charlton is still gripped by memories of their fraught relationship. In May 2017, Leonie trekked through the Outer Hebrides in the company of a friend and... -
India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945 by Srinath Raghavan 9780241957592
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.48SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Authoritative, expansive and incisive...helps restore India to the global twentieth century' Sunil KhilnaniBetween 1939 and 1945... -
White Mountain by Robert Twigger 9781474604369
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.13'Robert Twigger is not so much a travel writer as a thrill-seeking philosopher' EsquireThe Himalayas beckon and we go ... Some to make real journeys and others to make imaginary ones. These... -
Borneo: The History of an Enigma Olivier Hein 9781805264231
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.48A fun and fascinating history of an island best known for tropical rainforests and captivating wildlife-but with a much bigger story to tell. The world's third-largest island, and the only one... -
Forever President: A Biography of Kim Il Sung Michael J Seth 9781836391043
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14Kim Il Sung ruled his country, North Korea, for longer and shaped it more profoundly than almost any other modern leader. He created a unique and seemingly bizarre and menacing political and social... -
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €6.26Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism,... -
The Hunt for Mount Everest Craig Storti 9781529331554
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'The definitive back story of Mount Everest' Stewart Weaver, co-author of Fallen Giants 'Craig Storti has given us the Everest book that we've needed all along' Scott Ellsworth, author of The...