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  • Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys

    Alexander Maitland
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    For nearly two hundred years the Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have contributed most to our geographical knowledge...

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  • The World: A Family History (Hardcover)

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    From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one...

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  • A Breed Apart: The Inside Story of a Recce's Special Forces Training Year (Paperback)

    Johan Raath
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    The South African Special Forces, or Recces, has always been known for their gruelling selection course that pushes soldiers to the ends of their p...

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  • A Russian on Commando: The Boer War Experiences of Yevgeny Avgustus (Paperback)

    Boris Gorelik
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    In January 1900, galvanised by the daring of the Boers in taking on imperial Britain, the young Russian officer Yevgeny Avgustus set off for the Tr...

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  • General Jan Smuts: And His First World War in Africa (1914-1917)

    Jonathan Ball Publishers Sa
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    Jan Smuts’s abilities as a general have been much denigrated by modern historians. However, he was no armchair soldier – the statesman courageously...

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  • The Blinded City: Ten Years In Inner-City Johannesburg (Paperback)

    Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
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    Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to kee...

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  • Seven Khoi Lives

    Protea Boekhuis
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  • Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know (Hardcover)

    Greg Jenner
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    Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino heist? Who was the richest person of all time? ...

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  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Paperback)

    Wordsworth Books
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    **THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. ...

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  • 50 People Who Stuffed Up The World

    Alexander Parker; Tim Richman; Zapiro
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  • Die Buiteposte

    Dan Sleigh
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  • The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii

    Wordsworth Books
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  • 9780349704371

    A History of the World in Six Plagues (Paperback)

    Edna Bonhomme
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    An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a deeply reported, insightful account of hum...

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  • The Gulag Archipelago

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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    The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and ...

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  • Written in History: Letters that Changed the World

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    INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian ...

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  • The Rise And Fall Of Apartheid (Trade Paperback)

    David Welsh
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    On his way into Parliament on 2 February 1990 FW de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: 'South Africa wi...

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  • The Wide Wide Sea (Trade Paperback)

    Hampton Sides
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    On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution...

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  • Tao Te Ching (Hardcover)

    Lao Tzu
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    The Tao Te Ching came into existence some 2500 years ago, since when it has become the most influential text of Eastern philosophy. Best translated...

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  • Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 (Paperback)

    Max Hastings
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    The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastin...

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  • East West Street (Paperback)

    Philippe Sands
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    THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERWhen he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the U...

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  • How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain

    Wordsworth Books
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    From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-so...

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  • Landmarks (Paperback)

    Robert Macfarlane
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    Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of pl...

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  • The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj (Paperback)

    Anita Anand
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    Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held respon...

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  • The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

    Wordsworth Books
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    *The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize* *Bill Gates' Top 5 books for 2020* 'THE BEST TRUE SPY STOR...

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