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  • Ancient Mysteries

    Discover the latest intriguiging, Scientifically sound explinations to Age-old puzzles

    What was the Minotaur? Did a Welsh prince discover America? Did Robin Hood really exist? How does the Star of Bethlehem fit into the science of astronomy? Is the Vinland Map a fake? Can archaeologists use spirit messages to guide their work?For centuries, philosophers, scientists, and charlatans have attempted to decipher the baffling mysteries of our past, from the Stonehenge to the lost ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Danube

    A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest

    by Nick Thorpe ...
    The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, against the river’s flow, Nick Thorpe embarks on an inspiring year-long journey that leads to a new perspective on Europe today. Thorpe’s ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Walking Europe's Last Wilderness

    A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains

    by Nick Thorpe ...
    An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and historyThe Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine are Europe’s last true wilderness. A landscape of great spruce and beech forests, grass meadows, and ancient villages, its people contend daily with the elements—as well as Europe’s last large carnivores. But this fragile ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Adrift In Caledonia

    Boat-Hitching for the Unenlightened

    by Nick Thorpe ...
    One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first mutinous step in a delightful boat-hopping odyssey that would take him 2500 miles through Scotland's canals, lochs and coastal waters, from the industrial Clyde to the scattered islands of Viking Shetland ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Eight Men And A Duck

    An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island

    by Nick Thorpe ...
    Nick Thorpe was innocently travelling around South America with his wife, Ali, when he came across an American adventurer planning to sail from Chile to Easter Island on a Bolivian boat made of reeds. Inspired by the great Thor Heyerdahl, Phil Buck had recruited seven men to join him on this experiment to discover whether it might have been possible that Polynesia was first settled from South ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Urban Worrier

    Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go

    by Nick Thorpe ...
    Hunched exhausted at his computer one ordinary Monday morning, world-class workaholic Nick Thorpe has reached the end of his tether. Fearing for his health and family life, he knows something has to change. But where to start when trying too hard is part of the problem?Nick makes a bold resolution: he will spend a year learning to let go. Beginning with a plunge off a Cornish cliff, he soon ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    The Danube

    A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest

    by Nick Thorpe ...
    Narrated by Nick Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    The author takes us on an unexpected journey up the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar worldThe magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Traveling its full length from east to west, against the river’s flow, Nick ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The past is a foreign country: t****his is your guidebook.Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go to a castle or a monastic guesthouse? And what are you going to eat? What sort of food are you going to be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord?This ... Read more

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  • A History of the World in 100 Objects

    This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the ... Read more

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  • Forbidden History

    Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization

    Edited by J. Douglas Kenyon ...
    Challenges the scientific theories on the establishment of civilization and technology• Contains 42 essays by 17 key thinkers in the fields of alternative science and history, including Christopher Dunn, Frank Joseph, Will Hart, Rand Flem-Ath, and Moira Timmes• Edited by Atlantis Rising publisher, J. Douglas KenyonIn Forbidden History writer and editor J. Douglas Kenyon has chosen 42 essays that ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Lone Survivors

    How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

    A top researcher proposes a controversial new theory of human evolution in a book "combining the thrill of a novel with a remarkable depth of perspective" ( Nature).In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists (who hold that modern humans developed from ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Bible Unearthed

    Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Sacred Texts

    In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use significant archeological discoveries to provide historical information about biblical Israel and its neighbors, reshaping our understanding of Jewish and Biblical history.In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman draw on recent ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD