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  • The Savage Frontier

    The Pyrenees in History and the Imagination

    by Matthew Carr ...
    A sweeping historical travelogue of the contentious border of France and Spain, in the great tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Jan MorrisWith the Catalonia crisis making international headlines, the unique cultural and geographic region bordering Spain and France has once again moved to the center of the world's attention. In The Savage Frontier, acclaimed author and journalist Matthew Carr uncovers ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood and Faith

    The Purging of Muslim Spain

    by Matthew Carr ...
    In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death.In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communities were obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fortress Europe

    Dispatches from a Gated Continent

    by Matthew Carr ...
    Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on “the brutal frontiers of new Europe,” Fortress Europe is the story of how the world's most affluent region—and history's greatest experiment with globalization—has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a humanitarian crisis that has galvanized the world's attention.Journalist Matthew Carr brings to life remarkable ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devils of Cardona

    by Matthew Carr ...
    **"A thrilling quest for justice... [A] novel that is as exciting as it is enlightening from its first pages to its satisfying end.” —The New York Times Book Review“A page-turner in the proper sense… Mr. Carr has written a gripping and enjoyable novel.” —The Wall Street JournalThe gripping story of the dangerous high-stakes worlds of politics and religion in sixteenth-century Spain as a mysterious ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sherman's Ghosts

    Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War

    by Matthew Carr ...
    This "thought-provoking" military history considers the influence of General Sherman's Civil War tactics on American conflicts through the twentieth century ( The New York Times)."To know what war is, one should follow our tracks," Gen. William T. Sherman once wrote to his wife, describing the devastation left by his armies in Georgia. Sherman's Ghosts is an investigation of those tracks, as well ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood and Faith

    The Purging of Muslim Spain

    by Matthew Carr ...
    A "richly detailed" chronicle of what was by 1614 the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history, a centuries-old story with remarkable contemporary resonance ( Choice )."Offers a grim lesson about religious and racial repression in our contemporary age of contested faiths." ―David Levering Lewis, author of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570–1215</str... ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fortress Europe

    Dispatches from a Gated Continent

    by Matthew Carr ...
    An unflinching study of the human consequences of global inequality and the refugee crisis in contemporary Europe."An eye-opening journey around the periphery of Europe, observing humanity on the move and injustice in action. . . . A gripping, troubling, shocking account." —Philippe Sands, author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the BetrayalFortress Europe is the devastating story of how the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Savage Frontier

    The Pyrenees in History and the Imagination

    by Matthew Carr ...
    A sweeping historical travelogue of the contentious border of France and Spain, in the great tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Jan MorrisWith the Catalonia crisis making international headlines, the unique cultural and geographic region bordering Spain and France has once again moved to the center of the world's attention. In The Savage Frontier, acclaimed author and journalist Matthew Carr uncovers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Darwin's Savages

    Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia

    by Matthew Carr ...
    In December 1832, Charles Darwin sailed into Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South America, where he first encountered 'Indians'. 'I would not have believed how entire the difference between savage and civilized man is,' he wrote. 'It is greater than between a wild and [a] domesticated animal.' But he was shocked by the 'war of extermination' he witnessed in northern Patagonia, waged by the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Battle Scars: A Soldier's Strategy for Fighting Cancer

    by Matthew Carr ...
    Major Matthew Carr is a professional soldier who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. When faced with a cancerous invasion of his body, Matthew used the training he had received in the Australian Army to wage his own relentless battle with an enemy force. Autobiographical, practical and inspiring in the style of Lance Armstrongs 'Its Not About the Bike', this book will change your view on how to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Black Sun Rising

    by Matthew Carr ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 15 min

    Barcelona, summer 1909. When the scientist and explorer Randolph Foulkes is blown up in a random terrorist bomb attack, private detective Harry Lawton is hired by the man's widow to identify the beneficiary of a large payment Foulkes had made shortly before his death. Lawton's arrival in the Catalan capital coincides with a series of unusual killings that appear to have been carried out by a blood ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Devils of Cardona

    by Matthew Carr ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 2 min

    **"A thrilling quest for justice... [A] novel that is as exciting as it is enlightening from its first pages to its satisfying end.” —The New York Times Book Review“A page-turner in the proper sense… Mr. Carr has written a gripping and enjoyable novel.” —The Wall Street JournalThe gripping story of the dangerous high-stakes worlds of politics and religion in sixteenth-century Spain as a mysterious ... Read more

    $22.50 USD