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In Search Of The Trojan War by Michael Wood
$22.17 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature. But did these titanic characters really walk the earth? Was there ever an actual siege of Troy? In this ex ...Show more
In Search of England by Michael Wood
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
Focussing on the idea of England and Englishness, this book explores a series of pieces on English myths. And then, it looks at the history of half a dozen places in England: a farmhouse on Dartmoor, a battlefield in Sheffield, and, a medieval village near Leicester. By these means, it describes the ori ...Show more
In Search of Shakespeare by Michael Wood
$49.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Using every kind of documentary evidence, this is a new and surprising historical portrait of the world
In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
The bestselling classic In Search of the Dark Ages expanded and revised for the book's 40th anniversary. From Boudica to William the Conqueror, this is the definitive story of the Early Middle Ages and the hidden history of it's people.In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origi ...Show more
In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
This new edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history, such as Queen Boadicea, leader of a terrible ...Show more
India : An Epic Journey Across the Subcontinent by Michael Wood
$69.99 NZD
Category: Photography
Marco Polo described India as 'a land of wonders' in the 13th century, and his observation is no less true today. Everything about India is older, bigger, more colourful, more diverse and more intriguing than anywhere else. It is the land of a multitude of many armed gods and goddesses, home to the arch ...Show more
The Crocodile and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - Dostoevsky's Finest Short Stories in the Timeless Translations of Constance Garnett by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael Wood (Introduction by)
$39.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: riverrun editions | Reading Level: very good
'I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born' A man goes mad because he is happy. A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party. A man is swallowed by a crocodile, but not eaten nor seriously damaged. Dostoevsky's stories inhabit similarly volcanic ...Show more
The Great Turning Points of British History by Michael Wood
$33.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
Twenty of the most crucial moments in Britain's history "BBC History Magazine" asked a selection of leading historians to choose and describe the twenty most important turning points in British history from AD 1000 to 2000. Collected together, their choices present a new way of looking at our nation's s ...Show more
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People by Michael Wood
$26.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' - Tom Holland ... 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tom ...Show more