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The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham 9781399632447
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone.In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and one extraordinary individual) had grabbed... -
The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham 9781399632423
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. The public expected it to be over by Christmas, but it proved to be the longest (two and... -
Scramble for Africa... by Thomas Pakenham 9780380719990
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380719990Author Thomas PakenhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint -
Dublin: A Traveller's Reader Thomas Pakenham 9781472141644
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Unforgettable . . . no better compilers could have been found' - History Today'Dublin's past comes dazzlingly alive' - Publishing News'Erudite and practical simultaneously' - Gemma Hussey, Irish... -
Remarkable Trees of the World by Thomas Pakenham 9780393325294
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.02The publication of Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. Thomas Pakenham embarks on a five-year odyssey to most of the temperate and tropical regions of the world to... -
Meetings With Remarkable Trees Thomas Pakenham 9781474601474
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.20Thomas Pakenham's beautifully illustrated, bestselling book of tree portraits.With this astonishing collection, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owes little to... -
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The Scramble For Africa by Thomas Pakenham 9780349104492 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110... -
The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest Thomas Pakenham 9781474606790
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of MeadowlandThomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Company of Trees he recounts his... -
The Tree Hunters: How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Britain’s Landscape Thomas Pakenham 9781474611909
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35For centuries, English country gentlemen had collected exotic pictures for their saloons and rare books for their libraries. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had begun to collect trees... -
The Tree Hunters: How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landscape by Thomas Pakenham 9781474611916
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For centuries, English country gentlemen had collected exotic pictures for their saloons and rare books for their libraries. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had begun to collect trees... -
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa Lawrence James 9781780226187
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa... -
Tom, Ned and Kitty: An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family Eliza Pakenham 9781474614849
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'I am standing in the dining room of my father's house in Ireland, gazing up at ten Pakenham family portraits. What thoughts went on behind those passive, chalky faces? How can I bring them out of... -
Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent by Keith Somerville
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College LondonOver the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined,... -
More Than Just War: Narratives of the Just War and Military Life by Charles Jones 9781138125872
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has... -
Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Drori 9781399610698
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.29An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe.In his follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes... -
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Routledge Study Guide by David Whittaker
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of... -
Around the World in 80 Plants Jonathan Drori 9781786272300
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe.In his follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes... -
Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape by Oliver Rackham
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.67A beautifully written classic of nature writing.'A masterly account...of supreme interest...a classic' Country LifeLong accepted as the best work on the subject, Oliver Rackham's book is both a... -
The History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £7.99From its earliest origins to the present day, this award-winning, beautifully written book describes the endlessly changing character of Britain's countryside.'A classic' Richard MabeyExploring the... -
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with... -
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Ireland - A History: A history by Robert Kee 9780349116761 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.51Robert Kee's classic bestseller remains an essential survey of the country and its people; an introduction to the fascinating history that has made modern Ireland, and a thought -provoking... -
The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller - What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben 9780008218430
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Sunday Times Bestseller 'A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement' Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) ... -
Henry Lamb: Out of the Shadows by Harry Moore-Gwyn
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92A draughtsman of remarkable ability, matching even his mentor Augustus John, Henry Lamb (1883-1960) was a founder-member of the Camden Town Group, exhibiting at their inaugural exhibition in 1911. He... -
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey... -
Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away'Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography... -
A Training School for Elephants by Sophy Roberts 9781804994399
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD'S TRAVEL WRITING BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION 2025 **SPECIALLY COMMENDED**From the acclaimed author of... -
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Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher 9780099494287 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.34**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey...