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China : A History by John Keay
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist. Most histories of China appear to have been written by sinologists for sinologists. As Chi ...Show more
China : A History by John Keay
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist. Most histories of China appear to have been written by sinologists for sinologists. As Chi ...Show more
China: A History by John Keay
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist. Most histories of China appear to have been written by sinologists for sinologists. As Chi ...Show more
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is' Michael Palin History has not been kind to Himalaya. Empires have collided here, cultures have clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the no ...Show more
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
"Excellent ... packed with information and interesting anecdotes."--The Washington Post A groundbreaking new look at Himalaya and how climate change is re-casting one of the world's most unique geophysical, historical, environmental, and social regions. More rugged and elevated than any other zone on ea ...Show more
Last Post: The end of Empire in the Far East by John Keay
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
John Keay's epic, expert study of the twentieth-century demise of colonial rule in the Far East The names echo like the last long notes of a bugle call: Hiroshima, Dien Bien Phu, Tiananmen Square; MacArthur and Mountbatten; The Quiet American and Bridge over the River Kwai. In a twentieth-century welter ...Show more
Mad About the Mekong : Exploration and empire in South-East Asia by John Keay
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France's greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today. Any notion of sailing up the Mekong in homage to Francis Garnier has been unthinkable until now. From i ...Show more
Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day by John Keay
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The first modern history of all South Asia's peoples. If British India had not been partitioned in 1947, its population would today be the world's largest. At c1.5 billion, Midnight's Descendants (the offspring of those affected by 'the midnight hour' Partition) already outnumber Europeans and Chinese; ...Show more
Midnight's Descendants - South Asia from Partition to the Present Day by John Keay
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
An epic narrative history that compares and contrasts the fortunes of all the countries that make up South Asia. If British India had not been partitioned in 1947, its population would today be the world's largest. At c1.5 billion, Midnight's Descendants (the offspring of those affected by 'the midnight ...Show more
The Spice Route - A History by John Keay
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Aromatic spices and exotic trade routes mingle headily in this lush, evocative history. This is an exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage. "The Spice Route" transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth. "The Spice Route" is one of history's great anomalies. Shroude ...Show more