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“jonathan lawley”

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  • A Road to Extinction

    Can Palaeolithic Africans survive in the Andaman Islands?

    by Jonathan Lawley ...
    The Jarawa, one of the oldest tribes of human beings in the world, are at risk of extinction because of a road that now runs through their forests in the Indian-administered Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal — and no one seems to care.Tourists take the road each day to try and get selfies with the tribespeople, who came from what is now Botswana over 60,000 years ago.Once proud of their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Beyond the Malachite Hills

    A Life of Colonial Service and Business in the New Africa

    by Jonathan Lawley ...
    What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady and hopeful days of decolonisation the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster - revolution; brutal military dictatorship; ethnic conflict - even genocide; civil war; state-threatening corruption; economic failure; and, in places, the complete breakdown of state and society. And all has been compounded by natural disasters - drought, famine and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Penguin History of New Zealand

    by Michael King ...
    This bestselling book by the late Michael King is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. First published in 2003 and hailed as a triumph of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, it has been continuously in print for 20 years and has sold over 300,000 copies. It remains the definitive, yet highly readable, starting-point for anybody wanting to ... Read more

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  • The Story of Australia’s People Vol. I

    The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia

    by Geoffrey Blainey ...
    The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to terms with the land they found, and each had to make sense of the other.The long Aboriginal ... Read more

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  • Out In The Midday Sun

    by Elspeth Huxley ...
    Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her 'memories of an African childhood' in THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA and THE MOTTLED LIZARD. In this final volume of her trilogy she tells the story of her adult life in Africa, in which the vigorously evoked personalities - from the pioneer Lord Delamere and Baroness Blixen to Jomo Kenyatta - blend with her supurb description of the social ... Read more

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  • Nine Faces Of Kenya

    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

  • A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    by Robert Pringle ...
    A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists and taste-makers of the 1930s in romanticising the island and the complex legacies of ... Read more

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  • The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill

    by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios ...
    A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Convincing Ground

    Learning to Fall in Love with your Country

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    Convincing Ground is a wide ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. For Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka and the back of Bourke, but in the more satanic furnace of Murdering Flat, Convincing Ground and Werribee. He knows we can't reverse the past, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • 1787

    The Lost Chapters of Australia's Beginnings

    by Nick Brodie ...
    For over 200 years Australia’s official history has focused on English colonisation and ‘discovery’, with tales of British explorers and first generation white Australians navigating the vast and unfriendly land. But what of the millennia before the English claimed Australia as their own and wrote the history books. 1787 traces the journey of Australia before the infamous 1788 date, to explore ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • From Cook to Convicts

    A Voyage of Adventure, Mayhem and Discovery

    by John Darkin ...
    Series series Little Red Books
    In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in his ship, the HM Bark Endeavour. Setting out from England in 1768, he was given two instructions: to observe the transit of Venus and to find and chart the mythical "Great Southern Land". He succeeded in both tasks, despite he and his crew facing great hardship and danger, to complete one of the great voyages of exploration. But ... Read more

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  • Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History

    Edited by Alfian Sa'at, Faris Joraimi, Sai Siew Min ...
    Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD