Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Asian
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Secrets of the Samurai by Westbrook, Adele
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Secrets of the Samurai is the definitive study of the martial arts of feudal Japan-explaining in detail the weapons, techniques, strategies, and principles of combat that made the Japanese warrior a formidable foe. Beginning with a panoramic survey of the tumultuous early struggles of warlords contendin ...Show more
Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan by Ihara Saikaku
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tuttle Classics
"Five charming novellas which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." The New Yorker First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary class ...Show more
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Reading Level: near fine
The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. They changed the world. The Mongols, today?s descendants of Genghis Khan, see them as ancestors. Their rise cemented Chinese unity and inspired the first Great Wall. Their heir ...Show more
1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies
$32.95 AUD
Category: Asian
On 8 February 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, 500 foot long junks made from the finest teak and mahogany, were led by Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from ...Show more
A Brief History of China by Jonathan Clements
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had not fully recovered--until now. China's modern resurgence as the world' ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Reading Level: near fine
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia's History by Sunil Amrith
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Asia's history has been shaped by its waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas--and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows ...Show more
The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people by Michael Wood
$59.99 AUD
Category: Asian
China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential for reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.China is the oldest livi ...Show more
The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
A pacy history of China that can be read in an afternoon, but will transform your perspective for a lifetime. From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years. Chinese hi ...Show more