The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
$27.95 AUD
Category: Historical
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds.Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hun ...Show more
Scrimgeour's Scribbling Diary: The Truly Astonishing Wartime Diary and Letters of an Edwardian Gentleman, Naval Officer, Boy and Son by Alexander Scrimgeour
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical
When nineteen year old Alexander Scrimgeour lost his life at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, he had already left a legacy - complete diaries spanning the previous six years, chronicling first his life as the son of a wealthy stock broker, then his time as a young sea cadet and finally as a Sub-Lieutenant ...Show more
Grandes Horizontales : The lives and legends of four nineteenth-century courtesans by Virginia Rounding
$24.95 AUD
Category: Historical
A brilliant group biography in the mould of Stella Tillyard's Aristocrats and Katie Hickman's Daughters of Britannia, now published in paperback The lives and legends of four women, all representatives of the golden age of the French courtesan. In the reign of Emperor Napoleon III the opulent and pamp ...Show more