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“robin birley”

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  • Vindolanda

    Everyday Life on Rome's Northern Frontier

    by Robin Birley ...
    The beautiful site the Romans called Vindolanda lies in south-west Northumberland, in the district of Tynedale, more or less half way between the North Sea east of Newcastle and the Irish Sea to the west of Carlisle. It is just within the boundary of the Northumberland National Park, and is a part of the World Heritage Site of Hadrian's Wall. The Wall itself was built on the whinstone ridge a mile ... Read more

    $20.39 CAD

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  • Chedworth: Life in a Roman Villa

    by Simon Esmonde Cleary ...
    Chedworth is one of the few Roman villas in Britain whose remains are open to the public, and this book seeks to explain what these remains mean. The fourth century in Britain was a 'golden age' and at the time the Cotswolds were the richest area of Roman Britain. The wealthy owners of a villa such as Chedworth felt themselves part of an imperial Roman aristocracy. This is expressed at the villa ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Hadrian's Wall: One Hundred Questions About the Roman Wall Answered

    Per Lineam Valli, #1

    by M. C. Bishop ...
    Series Book 1 - Per Lineam Valli
    This book provides a friendly and accessible introduction to Hadrian's Wall in the form of 100 questions and their answers. Designed to appeal to all who have heard of (but do not necessarily know much about) this important monument, the themes covered include Building the Wall, Using the Wall, After the Wall, Visiting the Wall, and Understanding the Wall. It includes a select bibliography. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roman Britain: A New History 55 BC - AD 450

    A New History 55 BC-AD 450

    by Patricia Southern ...
    For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the north western edge of the vast Roman Empire. Patricia Southerns masterly new history tells the story from first contact, through invasion and conquest, coexistence to eventual decline incorporating the political, social and cultural history of Britannia. For the first time the wealth of voices from the varied ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Prehistory

    The Making of the Human Mind

    by Colin Renfrew ...
    Series Book 30 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term “prehistory” itself, giving an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and how scholars and scientists labor to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Empires of the Sea

    The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580

    by Roger Crowley ...
    In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, despatched an invasion fleet to the island of Rhodes. This was the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths, and the ensuing battle for control of the Mediterranean would last sixty years.Empires of the Sea tells the story of this great contest. It is a fast-paced tale of spiralling ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Legions of Rome

    The definitive history of every Roman legion

    by Stephen Dando-Collins ...
    No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous sources: stone and bronze inscriptions, coins, papyrus and literary accounts in a remarkable feat ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The London Nobody Knows

    by Geoffrey Fletcher ...
    Geoffrey Fletcher's off-beat portrayal of London does not focus on the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. His descriptions will transport you to an art nouveau pub, a Victorian music hall, a Hawksmoor church and even a public toilet in Holborn in which the attendant kept goldfish in the cisterns. Drawn to the corners where 'the kids swarm like ants and there are ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Enemies at Home

    by Lindsey Davis ...
    Series series Flavia Albia
    We first met Flavia Albia, Falco's feisty adopted daughter, in The Ides of April.Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man's world: young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the Aventine Hill in Rome and makes a good living as a hired investigator. An outsider in more ways than one, Albia has unique insight into life in ancient Rome, and she puts it to good use going ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ides of April

    by Lindsey Davis ...
    Series series Flavia Albia
    Chosen by The Times as one of the Top Ten Crime Novels Written by Women since 2000Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of a famous investigating family. In defiance of tradition, she lives alone on the colourful Aventine Hill, and battles out a solo career in a male-dominated world. As a woman and an outsider, Albia has special insight into the best, and worst, of life in ancient Rome.A female ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In the Heart of the Sea

    The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)

    by Nathaniel Philbrick ...
    **From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.In 1820, the whaleship Essex was ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Lady in the Van

    by Alan Bennett ...
    NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING DAME MAGGIE SMITH'The first book that ever made me laugh out loud' Adam Kay'Utter genius' Daily MailIn 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord. And yet she lived ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD