Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in Canada

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “katherine pangonis”
Skip side bar filters

  • A History of France in 21 Women

    by Katherine Pangonis ...
    Series series History in 21 Women
    From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Edith Piaf, Colette to Coco Chanel, discover the lives of 21 women who made French history'Fascinating, gripping, vividly detailed, this is a wonderful book full of unforgettable lives.' Kate Williams, author of Becoming QueenFrench women have always had so much more to say than ‘let them eat cake’! Whether kicking the English out of Orléans, marching on Versailles or ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Queens of Jerusalem

    The Women Who Dared to Rule

    by Katherine Pangonis ...
    In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unlikely trio - including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They could not resist Saladin, but, if they were lucky, they could negotiate terms that would save the lives of the city's inhabitants ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Twilight Cities

    Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

    by Katherine Pangonis ...
    WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here, history has blurred with legend. The glittering surface of the sea conceals the remnants of lost civilisations, wrecked treasure ships and the bones of long-drowned sailors, traders and modern refugees.Of the ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    History of France in 21 Women, A

    by Katherine Pangonis ...
    Narrated by Bronwen Price ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 44 min

    The brilliant and sometimes scandalous lives of twenty-one women who made French history.From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Edith Piaf, Colette to Coco Chanel, discover the lives of 21 women who made French history.French women have always had so much more to say than ‘let them eat cake’! Whether kicking the English out of Orléans, marching on Versailles or running messages for the French resistance, ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Twilight Cities

    Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

    by Katherine Pangonis ...
    Narrated by Katherine Pangonis ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 58 min

    WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here, history has blurred with legend. The glittering surface of the sea conceals the remnants of lost civilisations, wrecked treasure ships and the bones of long-drowned sailors, traders and modern refugees.Of the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Queens of Jerusalem

    The Women Who Dared to Rule

    by Katherine Pangonis ...
    Narrated by Katherine Pangonis ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unlikely trio - including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They could not resist Saladin, but, if they were lucky, they could negotiate terms that would save the lives of the city's inhabitants ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Audiobook

    Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO

    the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance

    by Peter Apps ...
    Narrated by Peter Apps ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 24 min

    'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's democracies banded ... ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    X Marks the Spot

    The gripping true story behind the world's most extraordinary archaeological discoveries

    by Michael Scott ...
    Narrated by Michael Scott ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    Ancient shipwrecks in crystal seas, mythical princesses preserved in ice and astonishing lost rituals - this is the story of archaeology as you've never seen it before . . .'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing' - DAN SNOWProfessor Michael Scott uncovers the true stories behind history's most monumental discoveries, unearthing traps, curses and buried treasure along the way. Full of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Istanbul

    A Tale of Three Cities

    by Bettany Hughes ...
    Narrated by Bettany Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 35 min

    Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Borderlines

    The fascinating history of Europe in 29 borders from leading political analyst and Tim Marshall's 'borders expert'

    by Lewis Baston ...
    Narrated by Richard Attlee ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 56 min

    A history of Europe unlike any other: perfect for fans of A History of the World in 47 Borders and Prisoners of Geography.'One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I've read for years.' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, co-host of The Rest Is History podcastEurope's internal borders have rarely been 'natural'; they have more often been created by accident or force.In Borderlines, political hi ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Alexandria

    The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' – Daily Telegraph

    by Islam Issa ...
    Narrated by Islam Issa ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 15 min

    An original, authoritative and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day.My dad had always told me about our city's magnificence, and as I looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit home. This is no ordinary library, I reflected. And this is no ordinary city.Combining rigorous research with myth and folklore, Alexandria is an au... ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Outlandish

    Walking Europe's Unlikely Landscapes

    by Nick Hunt ...
    Narrated by Nick Hunt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    A dazzling plunge into the four strangest landscapes scattered across Europe.In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook