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Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is' Michael Palin History has not been kind to Himalaya. Empires have collided here, cultures have clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the no ...Show more
Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East by John Keay
$69.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Pertinent, scholarly, and irreverent--a uniquely ambitious and enthralling insight into the making of the world's most fraught arena. THE SEEDS OF CONFLICT in the Middle East were sown in the first sixty years of the twentieth century. It was then that the Western powers--Britain, France, and the United ...Show more
The Honourable Company - A history of the English East Indai Company by John Keay
$37.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics | Reading Level: good
During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there wo ...Show more
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