Great Britain
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Tour Du Mont Blanc: Trail Guide with 50 Large-Scale Maps and Guides to 12 Towns and Villages Including Chamonix, Courmayeur and Argentière
$21.95 Read moreAt 4810m (15,781ft), Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in western Europe, and one of the most famous mountains in the world. The trail (105 miles, 168km) that circumnavigates the massif, passing thro
- Author: Manthorpe, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1912716364
- Language: English
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Scotland: The Story of a Nation
$24.00 Read moreThe definitive history of Scotland, “told as a tale from its beginnings up to now” (The Observer).
Hailed as a “vast, superb history [that] relates Scotland’s past over a dozen millennia” (Kirkus Rev
- Author: Magnusson, Magnus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0802139329
- Language: English
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Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain’s Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918
$27.99 Add to cartT. E. Lawrence’s classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom made the Arab revolt a legend and helped turn him into the mythical “Lawrence of Arabia.” Setting the Desert on Fire is both a masterly account of the
- Author: Barr, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: July 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0393335275
- Language: English
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Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain
$16.95 Read moreA masterpiece of nature writing, Roger Deakin’s Waterlog is a fascinating and inspiring journey into the aquatic world that surrounds us.
In an attempt to discover his island nation from a new perspec
- Author: Deakin, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1953534031
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Snapshot Edinburgh
$11.99 Add to cartWith Rick Steves, Edinburgh is yours to discover! This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Scotland includes:
- Rick’s firsthand, up-to-date advice on Edinburgh’s best sights, restaurants, hotels, and
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1641715332
- Language: English
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
$19.95 Add to cartLauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 163149113X
- Language: English
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
$19.99 Add to cart“FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-copy paperback bestseller Over the Edge of the Wo
- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0062875361
- Language: English
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Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn
$21.95 Add to cartMeticulously researched while reading like a fast-paced thriller, this explosive new book details the way the Israel lobby deployed charges of anti-Semitism to destroy Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for power as
- Author: Winstanley, Asa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193810
- Language: English
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The Boleyns of Hever Castle
$27.99 Add to cartHever Castle is a picture-postcard fortified manor house nestled in the Kent countryside. It is famous for its links with the Boleyns, an East Anglian gentry family who rose and fell dramatically at t
- Author: Emmerson, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8412232569
- Language: English
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
$29.99 Add to cartIn Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin–“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)–tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel,
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093080
- Language: English
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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague
$29.95 Add to cartA Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method.
A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an in- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Bennett, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0812224698
- Language: English
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Not for Tourists Guide to London 2024
$19.99 Read moreWith details on everything from Big Ben to Brick Lane, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs.
Whether you’ve called London your home for decades or just arrived last night, there’s inform- Series: Not for Tourists Guides
- Author: Not for Tourists
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 151077744X
- Language: English
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A Family of Kings: The Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark
$14.99 Add to cartIn 1863, Queen Victoria decreed that her son Edward, Prince of Wales, should marry Princess Alexandra, daughter of the obscure and unsophisticated heir to the Danish throne.
The beauty, grace and charm
- Author: Aronson, Theo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: November 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1839012579
- Language: English
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The Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era
$29.95 Add to cartThe British colony of West Florida-which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, a
- Author: Bunn, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1588384136
- Language: English
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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
$18.95 Read moreDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. P
- Author: Green, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064498
- Language: English
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
$29.00 Read moreDiscover untold secrets with this extraordinary memoir of drama and tragedy by Anne Glenconner–a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret.
Anne Glenconner has been- Author: Glenconner, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 24, 2020
- ISBN10: 0306846365
- Language: English
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The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this V… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199674728
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$14.00 Add to cartBurke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack o… [more below]
- Series: English Library
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432043
- Language: English
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David Bowie: Icon: The Definitive Photographic Collection
$75.00 Read more- The most significant collection of David Bowie images ever assembled
- A luxurious opus published to coincide with the 5th anniversary of David Bowie’s death
- Impeccably printed, sumptuously designed, larg
- Author: Iconic Images
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1788840968
- Language: English
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Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England
$19.95 Read moreThe Catholic Church has been a part of English history since the arrival of Christian missionaries to Roman Britain in the first century after Christ. England was evangelized in these early centuries
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1621644359
- Language: English
