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France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPH I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel cross ...Show more
Paradise of Cities by John Julius Norwich
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Venice has always attracted distinguished visitors. Luminaries such as Lord Byron, John Ruskin, Richard Wagner, James McNeill Whistler and Robert Browning all spent time there and left fascinating accounts. John Julius Norwich gives a portrait of the city they discovered.
Shakespeare's Kings by John Julius Norwich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III. In a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare - when the crown was constantly contested, alliances were made and broken, and the people ro ...Show more
Sicily - A Short History from the Ancient Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the gateway between the East and the West, at once a stronghold, clearing-house and observation-post, Sicily has been invaded and fought over by Phoenicians and Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spaniards and ...Show more
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour photographs. 'I discovered Sicily almost by mistake ...We drove as far as Naples, then put the car on the night ferry to Palermo ...Show more
The Duff Cooper Diaries by John Julius Norwich
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Are these the best diaries covering Britain in the first half of the twentieth century? But what about those of Chips Channon, Harold Nicolson, John Colville, Lord Alanbrooke? (this list doesn't knowingly exclude Alan Clark, but he was recording the second half of the century). All published by Weidenfe ...Show more
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. The Great Cities in History tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo and Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character o ...Show more
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich
$69.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. "The Great Cities in History" tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo and Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character ...Show more
The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194: The Normans in Sicily Volume II by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was fantastically cosmopolitan; and to an atmosphere of racial and religious toleration un ...Show more
The Middle Sea : A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
$32.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery, it has served at various times as a cradle and a grave, a bond ...Show more
The Middle Sea : A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
$79.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This is a vast subject - vast in time (from the oldest surviving pyramid which dates from 2686 BC to the Great War of 1914-18); vast in geography (from Gibraltar to Jerusalem); vast in culture, including as it does the civilizations of the Phoenicians, the Ancient Egyptians, Greece, Carthage, Rome, Byza ...Show more