Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“julian platt”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “julian platt”
Skip side bar filters
  • Aristocrats and Archaeologists

    An Edwardian Journey on the Nile

    An unusually vivid first-hand account of early twentieth-century travel in EgyptA collection of letters in a small painted box passed down through three generations of a London family is the starting point for a vivid account of a three-month journey up and down the Nile in a bygone age. The letters, like a time capsule, bring to life a lost world of Edwardian travel and social mores, of Egypt on ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Return of a King

    The Battle for Afghanistan

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph'Dazzling' Sunday Times | 'Magnificent' Guardian | 'Sparkling' Daily TelegraphA towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple.In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first t... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Lost Empire of Atlantis

    History's Greatest Mystery Revealed

    by Gavin Menzies ...
    "MENZIES [IS] PROPOUNDING ONE OF THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY." — New York Times MagazineNew York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that "the lost city of Atlantis" was not only real but also at the heart of a highly advanced global empire that reached the shores of America before being violently wiped ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desert Queen

    by Janet Wallach ...
    The definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. • With a new Afterword • "Desert Queen...plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." —The Boston GlobeHere is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Victoria and Abdul (film tie-in)

    The Extraordinary True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant

    by Shrabani Basu ...
    NOW A MAJOR FEATURE FILMThe tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he suddenly found himself a personal attendant to the Empress of India herself. Within a year, he was established as a powerful figure at court, becoming the queen's teacher, or ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Scandalous Life

    The Biography of Jane Digby (Text only)

    The biography of Jane Digby, an ‘enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart – and hormones – ruled her head.’ Harpers and QueenA celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England s most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfilment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Road to Oxiana

    by Robert Byron ...
    In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • White Mughals

    Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India (Text Only)

    From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted ‘Return of a King’, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa – ‘Most Excellent among Women’ – the great-niece of the Prime ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Beneath the Sands of Egypt

    Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist

    "An enthusiastically written book for readers from YA to armchair adventure lovers who dream of being archaeologists or Egyptologists." — Library JournalA real-life "Indiana Jones," Donald P. Ryan, Ph.D., offers a breathtaking personal account of his adventures in archaeology in Beneath the Sands of Egypt. Fans of The Lost City of Z will thrill to the exploits of this "unconventional archaeologist ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

    by Judith Dean ...
    Series Book 1 - Oxford Bookworms Library
    A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Judith Dean. In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Paradise Lost

    The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance

    by Giles Milton ...
    On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions.PARADISE LOST is told with the narrative verve that has ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Search for Nefertiti

    The True Story of an Amazing Discovery

    Her power was rivaled only by her beauty. Her face has become one of the most recognizable images in the world. She was an independent woman and thinker centuries before her time. But who was Egypt's Queen Nefertiti?After years of intense research, Dr. Joann Fletcher has answered the questions countless researchers before her could not. While studying Egyptian royal wigs, she read a brief mention ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus