True stories: discovery, historical & scientific books

676 books were found.

The Palestine Yearbook 2015: The Genocide the World Ignores

The Palestine Yearbook 2015: The Genocide the World...

Author: Diana Lodge
ISBN: 9781909552128
Format: Paperback
$25.98

For well over 60 years the Palestinian people, in Israel, the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza and refugee camps, have...  Read More >>

Norse Myths: Viking Legends of Heroes and Gods

Norse Myths: Viking Legends of Heroes and Gods

Author: Martin J Dougherty
ISBN: 9781782743323
Format: Hardback
$51.72

Illustrated with 180 photographs, artworks and maps, Norse Myths is an exciting, engaging and highly informative...  Read More >>

The Travels

The Travels

Author: Marco Polo ,  Nigel Cliff
ISBN: 9780241253052
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The author was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which...  Read More >>

Boston Firsts: 40 Feats of Innovation and Invention that Happened First in Boston and Helped Make America Great

Boston Firsts: 40 Feats of Innovation and Invention...

Author: Lynda Morgenroth
ISBN: 9780807071342
Format: Paperback
$55.00

Back in print- The first book to bring together the inventions, innovations, and events that first happened in Boston....  Read More >>

Postcards from Pimlico

Postcards from Pimlico

Author: Paul Barrell
ISBN: 9781533209887
Format: Hardback
$28.78

3 old college friends, 2 different backgrounds, 1 dark secret. After the death of charles twin brother , Charles,...  Read More >>

Aaron Burr in Exile: A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811

Aaron Burr in Exile: A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811

Author: Jane Merrill ,  John Endicott
ISBN: 9780786494910
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Aaron Burr - Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the...  Read More >>

Mischief in Greenland: Only a Man in the Devil of a Hurry Would Wish to Fly to His Mountains

Mischief in Greenland: Only a Man in the Devil of a...

Author: Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar ,  Colin Putt
ISBN: 9781909461246
Format: Paperback
$31.05

First published 50 years before political correctness became an accepted rule, Mischief in Greenland is a treasure...  Read More >>

Wings of Ice: The Riddle of the Polar Air Race

Wings of Ice: The Riddle of the Polar Air Race

Author: Jeff Maynard
ISBN: 9781910670736
Format: Paperback
$21.99

'This polar adventure classic is begging to be read. A ripping yarn.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD  Read More >>

Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories

Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories...

Author: Graham Seal
ISBN: 9781760290436
Format: Paperback
$24.99

 Read More >>

Chernobyl the Zone

Chernobyl the Zone

Author: Francisco Sanchez ,  Natacha Bustos
ISBN: 9780993395116
Format: Paperback
$36.22

 Read More >>

Bushranger Tracks

Bushranger Tracks

Author: Powell Greg
ISBN: 9781742577784
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Read about the Ned Kelly gang, Captain Starlight, Ben Hall and many other bushrangers of our colonial past. With...  Read More >>

Concussion (Movie Tie-in Edition)

Concussion (Movie Tie-in Edition)

Author: Jeanne Marie Laskas
ISBN: 9780812989267
Format: Paperback
$29.99

"""A Random House trade paperback original""--Title page verso."  Read More >>

Mischief Among the Penguins Paperback: Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.

Mischief Among the Penguins Paperback: Hand (man) wanted...

Author: Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar ,  Libby Purves
ISBN: 9781909461208
Format: Paperback
$31.05

Mischief among the Penguins is H.W. Tilman's account of his voyage to the Southern Ocean island groups of Crozet and...  Read More >>

Andrew Murray Destined to Win: A Biographical Novel

Andrew Murray Destined to Win: A Biographical Novel...

Author: Olea Nel
ISBN: 9780992567156
Format: Paperback
$50.13

A true story of battles, blessings, betrayal, and breakthrough Although told in dramatized form, this is a factual...  Read More >>

Humans, Other Beings and the Environment: Harurwa (Edible Stinkbugs) and Environmental Conservation in Southeastern Zimbabwe

Humans, Other Beings and the Environment: Harurwa (Edible...

Author: Munyaradzi Mawere
ISBN: 9781443882675
Format: Hardback
$216.35

Humans, Other Beings and the Environment is an ethnographic study of the possibilities for the mutual, symbiotic...  Read More >>

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse:...

Author: Piu Eatwell
ISBN: 9781631491238
Format: Hardback
$53.25

One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr....  Read More >>

Murder at the Star

Murder at the Star

Author: Steve Adams
ISBN: 9781781722558
Format: Paperback
$25.85

 Read More >>

Elegy: The First Day on the Somme

Elegy: The First Day on the Somme

Author: Andrew Roberts ,  Gordon Griffin
ISBN: 9781510009455
Format: Audio
$52.81

Andrew Roberts evokes the pity and the horror of the blackest day in the history of the British army.  Read More >>

Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There

Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those...

Author: David Scrimgeour
ISBN: 9780993371509
Format: Paperback
$38.79

While many excellent books have been published about the nineteenth century county asylums in England, comparatively...  Read More >>

Going Back for Our Future II: Carrying Forward the Spirit of Pioneers of Science Education

Going Back for Our Future II: Carrying Forward the Spirit...

Author: Jon E. Pedersen ,  Kevin D. Finson
ISBN: 9781681231914
Format: Paperback
$146.89

Who were the pioneers in science education, and what motivated them to do what they did? This book is the second...  Read More >>

Going Back for Our Future II: Carrying Forward the Spirit of Pioneers of Science Education

Going Back for Our Future II: Carrying Forward the Spirit...

Author: Jon E. Pedersen ,  Kevin D. Finson
ISBN: 9781681231921
Format: Hardback
$263.31

Who were the pioneers in science education, and what motivated them to do what they did? This book is the second...  Read More >>

The Best Australian Yarns: and other true stories

The Best Australian Yarns: and other true stories

Author: Jim Haynes
ISBN: 9781760113063
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An omnibus from Jim Haynes about the true essence of what makes us Australians - our yarns, collected from every...  Read More >>

Lasseter's Gold

Lasseter's Gold

Author: Warren Brown
ISBN: 9780733631603
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Is there a field of gold lying in the Australian outback, where nuggets are ‘as thick as plums in a pudding’?  Read More >>

At the Coalface: The Memoir of a Pit Nurse

At the Coalface: The Memoir of a Pit Nurse

Author: Joan Hart ,  Veronica Clark
ISBN: 9780007596164
Format: Paperback
$14.99

 Read More >>

The Native Conquistador: Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Account of the Conquest of New Spain

The Native Conquistador: Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Account...

Author: Amber Brian (Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Iowa) ,  Bradley Benton (Assistant Professor of History, North Dakota State University)
ISBN: 9780271066851
Format: Paperback
$56.99

An English translation of Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Thirteenth Relation, an early seventeenth-century narrative of...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

wl

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List