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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847085214 | ISBN 10: 1847085210
In Terra Nullius, Sven Lindqvist travels 7,000 miles through Australia, lyrically describing its landscape, flora and fauna, while telling the history of the country, and revealing the shocking treatment of the Aboriginal peoples.�Lindqvist's title ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536031 | ISBN 10: 009953603x
Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic childhood, convinced that there she would find the happiness and sense of belonging she longed for. Caught up in the turmoil ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719560057 | ISBN 10: 0719560055
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099507376 | ISBN 10: 0099507374
Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biog ... more
View book details£7.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780500301142 | ISBN 10: 050030114x
Here is a lively, vibrantly illustrated social and cultural history of the Aboriginal Australians, from their origins to the present day. The book explores the spiritual beliefs and Dreamings of the Indigenous people, their complex social structures ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780553815221 | ISBN 10: 0553815229
In 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their orders were 'to proceed all the way to the end of the ear ... more
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