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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, 'Falling Upwards' is really a history of hope and fantasy - and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight' New Republic, Best Books of 2013 CHOSEN AS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN ** Guardian ** New Statesm ...Show more
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly u ...Show more
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Holmes Richard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it ...Show more
Marlborough : England's Fragile Genius by Richard Holmes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing its position as a major player on the European st ...Show more
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this classic work, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical stories that have captured his fancy in the course of researching his books on the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir. 'Sidetracks' is a sister book to 'Footsteps', conjured up from decades of ' ...Show more
Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Richard Holmes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since 1660 the army has evolved and adapted, but the social organisation of the men has changed less, with the major ...Show more
The Age of Wonder - How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement. The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, who stepped ...Show more
World War II (The Definitive Visual Guide) by Richard Holmes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Definitive Visual Guide
This is the definitive visual history of the people, politics and events of the epic conflict that shaped the modern world, World War II. From the build-up of hostility in the years leading up to the war, through to the reverberations still felt in the aftermath, this is a compelling, accessible and imm ...Show more
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