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France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$24.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of 2022 Winner of the 2022 American Library in Paris Book Award 2022 'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator 'A fresh way to write history' - Alan Johnson 'An amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious and original' - The Time Original, ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$54.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
'Packed full of discoveries' Sunday Times'A quirky, amused, erudite homage to France... ambitious and original' TimesFrance: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and th ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$39.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: near fine
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and endi ...Show more
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
$34.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
This title lets you explore the world's favourite city with the award-winning author of "The Discovery of France". No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Ro ...Show more
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
$24.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction. A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular wo ...Show more
Strangers - Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A perceptive, vivid and sometimes startling re-evaluation of homosexuality in the Victorian era
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe by Graham Robb
$19.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Graham Robb's new book will change the way you see European civilization.Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His investigations gradually revealed something extaordinary: a ...Show more
The Debatable Land - The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
$36.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: very good
'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in Great Britain, fought over by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and James V. After the Union of the Crown ...Show more
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
$32.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. It is the oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in the country, and preoccupied the monarchs and parliaments of England, Scotla ...Show more
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
$59.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
It's easy to reduce France to the sum of its parts: weekend breaks amid the culture of Paris or summer holidays basking in the sunshine of the south; accounts of the Revolution - Madame Defarge knitting beside the guillotine - and Napoleon's battle at Waterloo (mis)remembered from school history lessons ...Show more
The Discovery of France - A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb
$59.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
A narrative of exploration-- full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants-- that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a lan ...Show more