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Railways by Christian Wolmar
$33.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economi ...Show more
The Arab Conquests: The spread of Islam and the first caliphates by Justin Marozzi
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he h ...Show more
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
The 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 addition to the canon of literature that contemplates Oceanic navig ...Show more
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