The White Nile
By: Alan Moorehead
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
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1. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
2. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
By: Tom Holland
4.16
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
4. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
By: Hampton Sides
4.27
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San… read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
"We live in weary suspense," DeLong wrote. "Wintering in the pack may be a thrilling thing to read about alongside a warm fire, but the actual thing is sufficient to make any man prematurely old."-Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
"When De Long arrived in California with Emma that May, he went straight down to the yard and feasted his eyes upon his new ship. He was smitten by the transformation that had taken place during his a…"-Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
5. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.29
Format: 681 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental tri… read more
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- africa
- history
- nonfiction
"In battle, topography is fate."-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
"Troops caught nibbling their emergency D- ration chocolate bars were dubbed Chocolate Soldiers and punished by forfeiting two meals. This was a happy penance. The galleys served so much fatty mutton …"-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
6. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific In A Raft
By: Thor Heyerdahl
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
Five men in search of a mythical hero journey from Peru to Polynesia in this classic account of nau… read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
8. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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9. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
By: Antony Beevor
4.32
Format: 494 pages, Paperback
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
By: Timothy Egan
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of o… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
11. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
12. The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
By: Daniel Liebowitz , Charles Pearson
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Traces Henry Morton Stanley's three-year African expedition that was launched with the official int… read more
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- africa
- biography
- history
- adventure
- nonfiction
13. Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
By: Tim Jeal
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source… read more
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- africa
- biography
- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
14. The White Nile
By: Alan Moorehead
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile-- the da… read more
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- africa
- biography
- history
- adventure
- travel
- egypt
- nonfiction
15. Black Hawk Down
By: Mark Bowden
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market … read more
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- africa
- history
- nonfiction
16. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
By: Andrea Wulf
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, th… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
17. Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)
By: Dan Simmons
4.04
Format: 600 pages, Mass Market Paperback
It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds tha… read more
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"People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid."-Dan Simmons, Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)
18. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
By: Tony Horwitz
4.50
Format: None pages,
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle … read more
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19. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more
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20. The Zimmermann Telegram
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, andThe Zimmermann Telegramcomprise … read more
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21. Travels With My Aunt
By: Graham Greene
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "th… read more
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22. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
By: Paul Theroux
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
In Dark Star Safarithe wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the l… read more
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23. Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
By: Robert Graves , Seneca , Suetonius
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself. … read more
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24. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.93
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, b… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism."-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close t…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
25. The Birth of Tragedy
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside
3.99
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
26. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- africa
- biography
- history
- adventure
- travel
- egypt
- nonfiction
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
27. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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- africa
- nonfiction
- biography
- history
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
28. Lawrence of Arabia
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pre-order the authoritative, illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the ic… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
29. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By: Michael Palin
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
30. Hitler: Downfall, 1939-45
By: Volker Ullrich
4.60
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. The Nazis had consolidated their autho… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
31. Now You See Them (The Brighton Mysteries, #5)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The fifth gripping Brighton-based mystery from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway serie… read more
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