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...
  • Midst Africa's Southern Wilds

    TheirStory, #1

    by Johan Hefer ...
    Series Book 1 - TheirStory
    The impact of the 1820 Settlers on South Africa has been immense. Their likes included great statesmen, fighters for civil rights and other people who made South Africa what it is today (for good and bad).Why were these settlers so important? They were a very large homogenous group that came from a far more liberal population than what had been in South Africa.The Dutch/German immigrants from the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Bounty

    The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

    Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions.More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • Illusions Of Change

    A Poor Man at the Gate Series, #6

    Series Book 6 - A Poor Man at the Gate Series
    The Depression is over and fears of revolution have subsided, but there is still resentment over the previous year’s hangings. Robert is carrying out some very controversial actions on behalf of the government under cover of his bank’s business in America. Mad King George finally dies and a new reign appears to offer the possibility of change, but the realities of political and economic existence ... Read more

    $7.87 CAD

  • The Old Order

    A Poor Man at the Gate Series, #7

    Series Book 7 - A Poor Man at the Gate Series
    Tom becomes involved in the sordid suicide of Lord Castlereagh, the Foreign Secretary, and plays a major part in the cover up, earning much political gratitude for the whole family. Meanwhile, James marries well and begins to lay the foundations of a political career. The hunt for Tom’s attacker, Godby Fletcher, leads to America. Joseph, busy with his inventions, faces tragedy which may be too ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Great Convict Stories

    Dramatic and moving tales from Australia's brutal early years

    by Graham Seal ...
    Graham Seal brings to life the brutal Australian convict transportation system with stories of notorious criminals, colourful characters, and harsh punishments. There were also happy endings for the men and women for whom transportation was an opportunity to start afresh in a new land.'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller'Warren Fahey AMGraham Seal takes us back to Australia's ignominious ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Mutiny on the Bounty

    Texts by Captain Bligh, Sir John Farrow, and Rosalind Amelia Young

    The Mutiny of the Bounty is one of the most famous stories in maritime history that has been told in countless books and motion pictures. It describes the arduous voyage of the H.M.S. Bounty, under the harsh rule of the strict Captain Bligh, and the eventual mutiny of much of the crew led by the Mutineer Fletcher Christian. Less well-known is the incredible survival story of how Captain Bligh and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Virtue's Reward

    A Poor Man at the Gate Series, #11

    Series Book 11 - A Poor Man at the Gate Series
    Lord Frederick Masters is rescued from his folly in Belgium and is sent to obscurity on a plantation in Virginia. Ireland is starting the downhill slide that leads to the Great Famine of the 1840s, and cholera sweeps through London, claiming many lives. In the United States Henry Star is still profiting and brother Luke is taking the Protestant sword to the Mexicans in Texas. Stavros is ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia

    by James Bell ...
    On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two years old. He left behind family, good friends and the mysterious 'C.P.', a young woman with whom he hoped one day to be reunited.The journey usually took 130 days, but due to the incompetence of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travel Writing 1700-1830

    An Anthology

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!' - William Bartram 'Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would have us believe.' - Mary Wortley Montagu With widely varied motives - scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism - British ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty

    Series series Adlard Coles Maritime Classics
    On 28th April 1789 a small and unremarkable merchant vessel became one of the most famous ships in maritime history. HMS Bounty was under the command of 34-year-old Lieutenant William Bligh, an inexperienced commander who lacked the respect of a crew attracted to the promise of an easy life in a Tahitian paradise.Fletcher Christian led half the crew in mutiny against Bligh and after overpowering ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Toronto of Old

    In 1873, Henry Scadding, former rector of Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity, wrote the definitive history of early Toronto. His detailed portrait of the streets, customs and prominent citizens is a goldmine of sights and insights into a Toronto long-since disappeared.Toronto of Old was first reprinted in 1966 and has been out of print since 1973. The later version, edited by Frederick H. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Susannah Holmes & Henry Kable, Australia's First Dynasty Family

    The Marines of the First Fleet were the keeper of law and order upon the original settlement of the convict colony at Port Jackson in 1788. However only six years later one Henry Kable was appointed to the position of Chief Constable of the colony.Henry Kable createda number of firsts which included his marriage with fellow-convict Susannah Holmes alongside four other couples in the first marriage ... Read more

    $5.10 CAD