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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603 by Simon Schama
$39.95 AUD
Category: British
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme of British history seen from the twentieth century is endurance ...Show more
A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
$39.95 AUD
Category: British
'While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to "The Fate of the Empire", set the tone and agenda for the final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain, her people and her past. Spanning two centuries, crossing the breadth of the empire and cover ...Show more
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
$39.95 AUD
Category: British
'Great Britain? What was that?' asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. This volume, "The British Wars", is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life, faith and thought from 1603 t ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESelected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sundayand Observer 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The TimesThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
The words that failed were words of hope. But they did not fail at all times and everywhere. These gripping pages teem with words of defiance and optimism, sounds and images of tenacious life and adventurous modernism, music and drama, business and philosophy, poetry and politics. The second part of Sim ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
$28.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of ...Show more
Face of Britain by Simon Schama
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
"Simon Schama for teasing out extraordinary tales. Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, he turns Britain's most remarkable portraits into mesmerizing stories of love, power, fame and fortitude - which are beautifully illustrated with the treasures of the ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
$60.00 AUD
Category: Science
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries by Rebecca Abrams (Editor); Cesar Merchan-Hamann (Editor); Simon Schama (Foreword by)
$70.00 AUD
Category: History
*This book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. *Lavishly illustrated essays by experts in the field bring to life the outstanding works contained in the collections. *A fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social h ...Show more
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Second hand. good condition. The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained...'One of the most intelligent, original, stimulating, self-indulgent, perverse and irresistibly enjoyable books I have ever read. ' Philip ZieglerLandscape and Mem ...Show more
Patriots and Liberators by Simon Schama
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
A timely reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch Republic - a country once rich enough to be called the ...Show more
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
$55.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called 'Taste of the Garden of Eden'. Expel me, please. Haddock in the air? That would be Thursday. The faintest whiff of roasting garlic? That would be what my sister and I uncharitably du ...Show more