5 must-read history books like Vanishing Primitive Man by Tim Severin

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Vanishing Primitive Man

By: Tim Severin

4.38

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

A journey in search of the living survivors of Stone Age societies. Vanishing primitive Man explor…

If you liked the history plot in Vanishing Primitive Man by Tim Severin , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

By: James Shapiro

4.08

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous pl… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

By: Len Deighton

3.93

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Len Deighton’s classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Pa… read more

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"He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf."

-Len Deighton, The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

"I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information." "And?" "The most valuable?" "People with information…"

-Len Deighton, The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

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3. Kim

By: Rudyard Kipling , None

2.86

Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and … read more

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4. The Desert Air War

By: Richard Townshend Bickers

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Kindle Edition

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5. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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6. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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7. The Whispering Swarm (Sanctuary of the White Friars, #1)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Almost anyone who has read or written science fiction or fantasy has been inspired by the work of M… read more

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8. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more

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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

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9. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. China

By: Edward Rutherfurd

4.19

Format: 764 pages, Hardcover

The internationally bestselling author of Paris and New York takes on an exhilarating new world wit… read more

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11. The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War

By: Alan Warwick Palmer

3.86

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

In this classic account of the Crimean War, Alan Palmer puts the myths and realities of The Charge … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. The Cossacks

By: Philip Longworth

3.83

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a people who have survived throughout history... The legendary Cossack, the sabre wiel… read more

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  • history
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13. Escape from Germany

By: Neil Hanson

4.16

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

July, 1918. The most heavily guarded POW camp in the world. Surrounded by steel palisades and barbe… read more

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14. Vanishing Primitive Man

By: Tim Severin

4.38

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

A journey in search of the living survivors of Stone Age societies. Vanishing primitive Man explor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

19 best-selling history books like The Cossacks by Philip Longworth

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The Art of Renaissance Warfare: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War

Stephen Turnbull

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots

Linda Porter

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts

Israel Finkelstein , Neil Asher Silberman

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Amin Maalouf

4.20

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