13 Best nonfiction books like Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America by Giles Milton

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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America

By: Giles Milton

3.31

Format: None pages,

In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had m…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America by Giles Milton , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Spy

By: Paulo Coelho , Zoë Perry

3.37

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life o… read more

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"In a war, the first casualty is human dignity."

-Paulo Coelho, The Spy

"Memoria e un râu care curge întotdeauna înapoi."

-Paulo Coelho, The Spy

"الخطئية الحقيقية هي العيش بمنأى عن التناغم المطلق ص 94"

-Paulo Coelho, The Spy

"الرجال مولعون بتفسير الأمور ولديهم آراء حول كل شيء ص 50"

-Paulo Coelho, The Spy

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2. The Odessa File

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.14

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: a Mafia-like organi… read more

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Cover of Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 by Fred  Anderson

3. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766

By: Fred Anderson

4.19

Format: 912 pages, Paperback

In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the Am… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins

4. The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

By: Michael D. Watkins

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since its original release, The First 90 Dayshas become the bestselling globally acknowledged bible… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Imperium (Cicero, #1)

By: Robert Harris

4.13

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified… read more

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"What a terrible audit Death lays upon a man."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Few subjects make more tedious reading than happiness."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?"

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Tak usah cemas, akan banyak waktu untuk tidur setelah kita mati."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

Cover of Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty

6. Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign

By: Stephan Talty

4.17

Format: None pages,

read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18) by Ellis Peters

7. The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18)

By: Ellis Peters

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

To tie in with the hardcover release of Peters' The Benediction of Brother Cadfael, here is the 18t… read more

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8. Lorna Doone

By: R.D. Blackmore , Michelle Allen

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1869, Lorna Dooneis the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the rel… read more

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9. Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America

By: Giles Milton

3.31

Format: None pages,

In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had m… read more

Similar categories in Giles Milton's Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America book and Giles Milton's Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America

  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
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10. Wayfaring Stranger (Holland Family Saga, #1)

By: James Lee Burke

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance enc… read more

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11. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

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12. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

By: Bartolomé de las Casas , Anthony Pagden , None

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. A… read more

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13. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

By: Chris Hadfield

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours … read more

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14. The Hanging Tree (Peter Grant, #6)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

The Hanging Tree was the Tyburn gallows which stood where Marble Arch stands today. Oxford Street w… read more

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15. The Constant Gardener

By: John Le Carré

3.82

Format: 482 pages, Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of… read more

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"He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included."

-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener

"Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set."

-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener

"You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days."

-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener

"I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatter…"

-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener

16. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By: Charles C. Mann

4.23

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more

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17. The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chandler's 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter… read more

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Cover of Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe by John Guy

18. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By: John Guy

4.16

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . .  Hunting the Falcon  brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more

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  • tudor period
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

19. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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20. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

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Cover of The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte

21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) by Richard  Coles

22. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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Cover of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath by Peter Zeihan

23. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7) by Ben Aaronovitch

24. Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.24

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Join Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, for a brand new case . . . Martin Chorley, ak… read more

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"A sense of powerlessness can seriously exacerbate stress,"

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"The kitchen was the kind of brushed steel monstrosity that looks more like it's designed to weaponise viruses than cook dinner."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

25. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. The Monster of Florence

By: Douglas Preston

3.76

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) and Erik Lars… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"But we were just picnicking friends"

-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

"We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind."

-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

"You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion."

-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

"You can not stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion."

-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

Cover of Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas

27. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Witches of Vardø by Anya Bergman

28. The Witches of Vardø

By: Anya Bergman

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcra… read more

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29. The Children's Bach

By: Helen Garner

3.53

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more

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Cover of Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson

30. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

Cover of The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England by Joanne Paul

31. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

By: Joanne Paul

4.17

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more

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  • tudor period
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

12 Top history books like Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America by Giles Milton

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Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766

Fred Anderson

4.19

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Stephan Talty

4.17

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Giles Milton

3.31

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John Guy

4.16

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Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)

Dennis Lehane

4.09

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Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)

Dennis Lehane

4.17

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The Man Who Invented Florida (Doc Ford Mystery, #3)

Randy Wayne White

3.85

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Randy Wayne White

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