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Merchant Kings - When Companies Ruled the World 1600-1900 by Stephen R Bown
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An engaging blend of biography and economic/colonial history, "Merchant Kings" tells the story of the trading companies that monopolised vast territories all over the world during the first great period of globalisation. The leaders of these trading companies exercised dictatorial power over millions of ...Show more
White Eskimo : Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic by Stephen R. Bown
$37.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: A Merloyd Lawrence Book
"While Amundsen, Franklin, and Peary were first to explore the furthest geographical reaches of the Polar North, Knud Rasmussen was the first to explore its culture and its soul. Part Danish, part Inuit, the famed explorer anthropologist made an epic three year journey by dog sled from Greenland to Alas ...Show more
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