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  • Armies of the Aztec and Inca Empires, Other Native Peoples of The Americas, and the Conquistadores

    by Ian Heath ...
    Series series Armies of the Sixteenth Century
    There has probably never been a single volume with such extensive information on the uniforms and costumes of the European conquest of the Americas. Ian Heath has assembled 247 drawings and other illustrations to depict the native peoples of South America and the eastern parts of North America as well as Spanish, English, French and even German adventurers and explorers. The accompanying text also ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • East Africa

    Tribal and Imperial Armies in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1800 to 1900

    by Ian Heath ...
    Series series Armies of the Nineteenth Century
    Principally covering Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, this volume deals with the native peoples of East Africa and the Arabs and Europeans who variously fought, explored, and raided there in the course of the 19th century. The detailed text provides the dress, arms, organisation, and tactics of the protagonists, and includes sections on the foreign explorers and the forces of the British and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vikings

    by René Chartrand, Keith Durham, Ian Heath, Mr Mark Harrison ...
    Series series Osprey Publishing
    Bursting with full colour illustrations, a handy, complete guide to the Vikings, from the lives they led at home to their voyages of plunder across Europe and into America.The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors capture the popular imagination to this day. They made history, establishing the dukedom of Normandy, providing the Byzantine Emperors' bodyguard and landing ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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    by Elspeth Huxley ...
    In this marvelous anthology, Elspeth Huxley, our best and most popular writer on Africa, has drawn on her unparalleled knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a fully rounded portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world. In nine sections focusing on exploration, travel, settlement, war, hunting, wildlife, environment, life-styles, and legend and poetry, using only first ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Britain's Empire

    Resistance, Repression and Revolt

    by Richard Gott ...
    A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empireAs the call for a new understanding of our national history grows louder, Britain’s Empire turns the received imperial story on its head. Richard Gott recounts the long-overlooked narrative of resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood up to the might of the Empire. In a story of almost continuous colonialist violence, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Heat

    Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth

    by Ranulph Fiennes ...
    Ranulph Fiennes, the world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has also endured some of the hottest conditions on the planet, where temperatures regularly exceed 40 degrees and, without water and shelter, death is inevitable. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Works Of Sir Winston S. Churchill: Includes The River War, Liberalism And The Social Problem, London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria, The Story Of The Malakand Field Force And Other Works, Speeches And Letters (Mobi Collected Works)

    by Sir Winston S. Churchill ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The African Adventurers

    A Return to the Silent Places

    by Peter Hathaway Capstick ...
    Hailed as the adventure-writing successor to Hemingway and Ruark, only Peter Hathaway Capstick "can write action as cleanly and suspensefully as the best of his predecessors' ( Sports Illustrated). This long-awaited sequel to Death in the Silent Places brings to life four turn-of-the-century adventurers and the savage frontiers they braved.* Frederick Selous, a British hunter, naturalist, and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lunatic Express

    by Charles Miller ...
    In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at the east African post of Mombasa to perform an engineering miracle: the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway – a 600-mile route that was largely unmapped and barely explored. Behind Mombasa lay a scorched, waterless desert. Beyond, a horizonless scrub country climbed toward a jagged volcanic region bisected by the Great Rift Valley. A hundred ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Warrior

    The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen

    by Peter Hathaway Capstick ...
    Peter Hathaway Capstick died in 1996. At the time of his death, the world-renowned adventure writer was putting the finishing touches on this, a stirring and vivid biography of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a man with whom he felt he had much in common. Edited and prepared for publication by his widow, Fiona Capstick, Warrior is Capstick's riveting farewell to his fans and the final addition to ... Read more

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  • Into the Jaws of Death

    British Military Blunders, 1879–1900

    by Mike Snook ...
    A study of British military defeats and disasters in the late nineteenth century: "An enthralling look at the Victorian army in adversity." — BBC History MagazineBetween the Crimean War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the "savage wars of peace." ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes: Country in Transition 1896-1898

    by Alexander Bulatovich ...
    Translated by Richard Seltzer ...
    This is a unique and detailed first-hand account of Ethiopia in 1896-98 includes 78 photographs taken in Ethiopia at the time. It recounts the adventures and observations of a Russian officer with remarkable understanding for the many varied people who lived there and keen insight into their destiny. Originally published in 1900. According to a review in "Old Africa": "Despite its bland title, ... Read more

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