Cleopatra by Michael Grant
The famous, or infamous, Cleopatra was actually the seventh Egyptian queen to bear that name. The woman described in this book was not the kind of woman often d...
The famous, or infamous, Cleopatra was actually the seventh Egyptian queen to bear that name. The woman described in this book was not the kind of woman often d...
Fatal Passage is a biography of Scotsman John Rae, the man who discovered the fate of Sir John Franklin’s expedition to find the North-West Passage –...
This book has the secondary title ‘A History of the Intellectual and Political Movement’, which sums it up quite nicely. It starts by looking at Com...
Europeans knew little about Africa in 1880. Within 30 years Africa had been explored by Europeans and largely distributed between five countries – United ...