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The Odyssey : A New Translation by Homer (trans Stephen Mitchell)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
THE ODYSSEY, which tells of Odysseus's long voyage home after the battle of Troy, is one of the defining masterpieces of Western literature. Populated by one-eyed man-eating giants, beautiful seductive goddesses, and lavishly hospitable kings and queens, it is an extraordinary work of the imagination, t ...Show more
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers a ...Show more
The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe | Reading Level: very good
If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, ...Show more
The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald by Homer Homer
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing & terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches & treacherous seas that confront him? What new tests ...Show more
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
$34.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Climate change, energy crises, environmental pressures, population stress, economic instability and inequity: is this a world on the brink of catastrophe? There's reason to think so. But, as this crucial new book explains, these 'tectonic stresses', massive and frightening though they are, are not the e ...Show more
The Upside of Down: The End of the World as We Know it, and Why That May Not be Such a Bad Thing by Thomas Homer-Dixon
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
Winner, Canada's National Business Book Award Climate change, energy crises, environmental pressures, population stress, economic instability and inequity: is this a world on the brink of catastrophe? There's reason to think so. But, as this crucial new book explains, these 'tectonic stresses', ma ...Show more
Wimmera by Homer Rieth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Replacing the battles of heroes and gods with the struggle of mortal humans with time and space, 'Wimmera' re-invents the epic. 'Wimmera' is the history of a region and seedbed of a vision where 'the bunyip indeed lays down with the manticore.' There is nothing like it anywhere.