True stories: discovery, historical & scientific books

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On the evening of 14 August 1829 the government brig Cyprus was sheltering in Recherche Bay on the remote south-east...  Read More >>

This memoir is a story of loss and gain, of alienation and reconciliation, and of how such experiences go into the...  Read More >>

King in Prussia' is a remarkable story of the formative years of the renowned king Frederic the Great.With vivid...  Read More >>

Invites readers to climb into the Tundra Cub II and fly off to a land where the northern lights shimmer, the rivers...  Read More >>

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Features 120 individuals representing a who's who of international exploration. They recall the indelible moment...  Read More >>

An extraordinary true story of overheated love, desire, frenzied madness and flagellation in 16th century Naples,...  Read More >>

This book covers the glorious Islamic past when Islam reached its peak in terms of justice, peace, and prosperity....  Read More >>

In this riveting account of the shipwreck of the Batavia, Simon Leys travels to the site of the disaster to evoke...  Read More >>

Travel back in time to the early twentieth century as the magical Sand Lady takes a young girl on vacation to Ocean...  Read More >>

Boston Firsts is about everything (well, almost!) that happened first in Boston and changed life elsewhere: from...  Read More >>

In the summer of 200203, acclaimed writer and historian Tom Griffiths voyaged the Southern Ocean to Antarctica....  Read More >>

Richard Williams was a lifelong anti-imperialist and socialist, one of the Ohio 7 convicted in 1984 of having carried...  Read More >>

Out of Africa meets A Moveable Feast in this swashbuckling memoir of courage, literary passion, and adventure  Read More >>

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Many of the stories that survive from the period when the Jacobites threatened to overturn the British Government...  Read More >>

Each fall, twenty-seven miles off the San Francisco coast, in the waters surrounding a rocky island chain, the world's...  Read More >>

A sea voyage in the nineteenth century was not for the faint-hearted. The hazards were many and accidents commonplace....  Read More >>

In 1934 Commander Graham set off singlehanded from Falmouth in Emanuel, a tiny seven-ton cutter, on a voyage to...  Read More >>

The true story of Shropshire vicar Robert Foulkes whose lust led to murder and his eventual hanging at Tyburn in...  Read More >>

""The compass's rocky evolution is charted with an enthusiast's passion…A fascinating adventure."" —Bernadette Murphy,...  Read More >>

"""All the dirt on the Hume Highway"" (Shane Maloney)The Hume Highway runs from Sydney to Melbourne. Like all the...  Read More >>

The mutiny on Bounty on 28 April 1789 was the revolt of one man against another-Fletcher The mutiny on Bounty on...  Read More >>

An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst’s epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors and the building of...  Read More >>