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1001 Days That Shaped the World by FURTADO, PETER
45.00 AUD
Category: History
Fully updated for 2021, this is a comprehensive guide to those extraordinary moments that defined human history, written by respected figures from the fields of science, history, and journalism.
Great Cities Through Travelers' Eyes by Peter Furtado (Editor)
39.99 AUD
Category: Travel
This entertaining new anthology includes travelers' tales from thirty-eight cities spread over six continents, ranging from Beijing to Berlin, Cairo to Chicago, and Rio to Rome. The volume features commentators across the millennia, including the great travelers of ancient times, such as Greek geograph ...Show more
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged by Peter Furtado
19.99 AUD
Category: History
National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a 'self-portrait' of hi ...Show more
History Day by Day by Peter Furtado
19.99 AUD
Category: History
History Day by Day presents an original perspective on over two millennia of human history through 366 quotations, one for each day of the year, including leap years. Each quotation, tied to the anniversary of a significant historical event, captures that moment with the immediacy of an eyewitness or th ...Show more
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History by Peter Furtado
39.99 AUD
Category: History
When the great Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta visited Damascus in 1348 it was in the throes of a great plague which killed half of the population. Even so, he reported 'God lightened their affliction; for the number of deaths in a single day at Damascus did not attain 2,000, while in Cairo it reached the ...Show more
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today by FURTADO, PETER
49.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Whether it's because their rhetoric--"liberty, fraternity, equality"--articulates those ideals to which we most aspire, or because we are shocked by the destructive forces that are unleashed when social conventions break down, revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. And while all r ...Show more
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