The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
$26.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
'Just incredible' NAOMI KLEIN**New York Times Bestseller**The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen- the high seas.The oceans are some of the last untamed frontiers on our planet.Too big to police, and under no clear in ...Show more
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures. The world he describes sprawls all the way from the Caribbean west across the Pacifi ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps (Kids Edition) by Tim Marshall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Geography
How did the USA become a superpower? Why do people go to war? And why are some countries rich while others are so poor?The answers to these questions and many more in this eye-opening book, which uses maps to explain how geography has shaped the history of our world. Discover how the choices of world le ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$30.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
$60.00 NZD
Category: Geography
Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many maps that have inspired them and the sketches that the ...Show more