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In Pursuit of Plants by Philip Short
$54.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
In Surinam plant hunter F.W. Hostmann allowed vampire bats to suck his toes; in west Africa William Grant Milne was forced to sell his clothes and travel naked for 200 miles; Thomas Drummond was attacked by a bear in the North American woods; George Forrest narrowly escaped rampaging lamas in western Ch ...Show more
Mao: The Man Who Made China (PB) by Philip Short
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian deaths ...Show more
Pol Pot : The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression. In the three-and-a-half years of his r ...Show more
Putin by Philip Short
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' ObserverVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations. Yet many Russians continue to support him. Under Putin ...Show more
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader by Philip Short
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his nei ...Show more
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