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  • China

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    An authoritative account of five thousand years of Chinese history.**"Exquisitely written." —**GuardianMany nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past.Keay's ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • India

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India – from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.India’s history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • India

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    The British historian and author of Into India delivers "a history that is intelligent, incisive, and eminently readable" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay's India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Honourable Company

    by John Keay ...
    A history of the English East India company.During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Midnight's Descendants

    A History of South Asia since Partition

    by John Keay ...
    Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants-the generations born since the 1947 "midnight hour partition" of British India-are the world's fastest growing population. This vast region and its peoples wield an enormous influence over global economics and geopolitics, yet their impact is too often simplified by accounts that focus solely on one nation ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Siberia and Alaska

    by John Keay ...
    Series Book 352 - Mammoth Books
    Stranded on Bering Island - Georg Wilhelm StellerAs physician and scientific know-all on Vitus Bering's 1741 voyage, Steller shared its triumphs, including landing the first Europeans in Alaska. He also shared its disasters. Returning across the north Pacific to Russian Kamchatka, the crew was stricken with scurvy and the vessel grounded. Bering and half his men would die; the others barely ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arabia

    by John Keay ...
    Series Book 346 - Mammoth Books
    Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford PalgraveA scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British ambassador- Palgrave was a man of contradictions, all of them highly compromised when in 1862-3, fortified by Pius IX's blessing and Napoleon III's cash, he attempted the first west- east crossing of the Arabian peninsular. To steely nerves and a genius for disguise he owed his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Himalaya

    Exploring the Roof of the World

    by John Keay ...
    "Excellent ... packed with information and interesting anecdotes."-- The Washington PostA groundbreaking new look at Himalaya and how climate change is re-casting one of the world's most unique geophysical, historical, environmental, and social regions.More rugged and elevated than any other zone on earth, Himalaya embraces all of Tibet, plus six of the world's eight major mountain ranges and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: East and Central Africa

    by John Keay ...
    Series Book 350 - Mammoth Books
    Among the Sudanese - James BruceBruce reached the source of the Blue Nile in 1771, a century before the search for the source of the White Nile became headline news. His descriptions of the cruelties and orgies at Gondar, the Ethiopian capital, were greeted with disbelief; so was his account of the Sudanese rulers, and their queens, at Sennar. He was later shown to be an accurate observer as well ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Australia

    by John Keay ...
    Series Book 348 - Mammoth Books
    Landfall at Botany Bay - James CookThe son of a Yorkshire farm labourer, Cook won distinction as a naval hydrographer but was still a controversial choice to command a voyage of scientific observation to the Pacific in 1768. Its results, including the first coastal surveys of New Zealand and eastern Australia, led to a second voyage to the south Pacific and a third to the north Pacific, during ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Antarctic

    by John Keay ...
    Series Book 345 - Mammoth Books
    Farthest South - Ernest Henry ShackletonBorn in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy before being recruited for Captain Scott's 1901 expedition to Antarctica. He was with Scott on his first attempt to reach the South Pole and, though badly shaken by the experience, realized that success was now feasible. In 1907, with a devoted team but little official support, he launched his own ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arctic

    by John Keay ...
    Series Book 347 - Mammoth Books
    Four Years in the Ice - John RossDisgraced and dishonored for his report of an imaginary mountain range blocking the most likely access to the North West Passage, in 1829 Ross returned to Canada's frozen archipelago to vindicate his reputation. He rounded the north of Baffin Island and entered what he named the Gulf of Boothia. Here the Victory, his eccentric paddle-steamer, became frozen to the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD