Search Results for ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘History Books’ - 179 matches found

A Crack in the Edge of the World - The Great American Earthquake of 1906

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this...

A Death In Brazil

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2005 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
Delving into Brazil’s baroque past, Peter Robb’s “A Death in Brazil” looks at its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed...

Blood River - A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

'Blood River' tells of author Tim Butcher's unbelievable solo journey down the river Congo, through the heart of Africa. Ever since Henry Morton Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the...

Fishing in Utopia - Sweden and the Future that Disappeared

Andrew Brown’s Fishing in Utopia is part autobiography, part social analysis of Swedish society outside Stockholm from the years of socialism to the liberal government of today. The urge of nature brings...

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road

Peter Hopkirk’s “Foreign Devils on the Silk Road” details the tales and adventures of western explorers who uncovered and claimed the lost treasures of Central Asia. The Silk road, which linked imperial...

In Search of England

Michael Wood seeks to explore "The Matter of England", by offering a selection of close-up examinations of English history. Taken at different times and places, these snap shots of history are used...

In Search of the Trojan War

Michael Wood examines whether the legendary figures of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Paris and Helen, actually existed and whether events such as the siege of Troy ever occured. New evidence uncovered at...

Mother Tongues - Travels through Tribal Europe.

The author travelled for 18 months from Lappland to the Mediterranean, seeking out Europe's remaining indigenous tribes who are rooted to a place and have maintained their own language and culture, eg...

On Secret Service East of Constantinople

Peter Hopkirk’s “On Secret Service East of Constantinople” tells the history, in thrilling style, of the least-remembered front of the First World War, the German-Turkish attempt to weaken the British...

Salt - A World History

This book mixes the unusual recipe of a large helping of history, a decent portion of politics, a drop of geology and major injection of home economics. Blended together carefully, the outcome is a...

Setting the East Ablaze: On Secret Service in Bolshevik Asia

Peter Hopkirk’s “Setting the East Ablaze” tells the narrative history, in thrilling style, of the inter-war struggle for influence in Central Asia as Lenin attempted to spread the Bolshevik cause to...

Shipwrecked on the Top of the World

In 1743 fourteen Walrus hunters from Russia were stranded on the icepack around Svalbard after a storm destroyed their ship. Marooned with minimal provisions but with their incredible endurance and...

Staziland

Anna Funder’s “Staziland” is a spirited & rigorous historical account of life in East Germany, told with a passion and skill that makes it read almost like a novel. Funder examines the nature of the...

The American Future - A History

Simon Schama’s latest authoritative work - The American Future - comes at an apposite time in the country’s history. Published on the brink of an historic November 2008 election, the imminent collapse...

The Bus We Loved

In this affectionate history, Travis Elborough tells the story of the Routemaster's invention, rise and decline, of the people who worked on it, and of the enthusiasts who were mad about it. Slowly...

The Earth

Fortey, a paleontologist by profession, has created an exceptional 'Intimate History' of the Earth. Adopting the role of enthusiastic guide, he leads the reader around and even into some of the world...

The Ends Of The Earth

“The Ends Of The Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing On The Arctic and the Antarctic” features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works...

The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia

Peter Hopkirk's "The Great Game" tells the history of the decades-long struggle for Central Asia in the 1800’s. For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist...

The Island that Dared - Journeys in Cuba

SIGNED COPIES! Award winning travel writer Dervla Murphy’s journey into the heart of Cuba in The Island that Dared is a three generation adventure into one of the Caribbean’s most fascinating islands...

The Last Mughal

Dalrymple’s "The Last Mughal" tells the dramatic tale of India’s last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II. Directly descended from Genghis Khan and Timur of Akbar and Shah Jahan, his Mughal ancestors...