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Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age by Max Adams
28.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of Aelfred the Great, his war against the Vikings and the foundations of modern Britain. In AD 865, a 'great host' of battle-hardened Norse warriors landed on England's eastern coast, overwhelmed East Anglia with terrifying swiftness and laid the North to waste. Ghosting along estuaries and i ...Show more
The First Kingdom - Britain in the Age of Arthur by Max Adams
25.00 NZD
Category: History
The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. Somewhere in the dim void between the departure from Britain of the Roman legions at the start of the fifth century and the days of the venerable Bede, the kingdoms o ...Show more
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria by Max Adams
25.00 NZD
Category: No Category
The magisterial biography of Oswald Whiteblade, exiled prince of Northumbria, who returned in blood and glory to reclaim his birthright. A charismatic leader, a warrior whose prowess in battle earned him the epithet Whiteblade, an exiled prince who returned to claim his birthright, the inspiration for T ...Show more
The Museum of the Wood Age by Max Adams
25.00 NZD
Category: History
A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that p ...Show more
Trees Of Life by Max Adams
35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An informative, richly illustrated book about eighty of the world's most important and remarkable trees Our planet is home to some three trillion trees--roughly four hundred for every person on Earth. In Trees of Life, Max Adams selects, from sixty thousand extant species, eighty remarkable trees th ...Show more
Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment by Max Adams
28.00 NZD
Category: History
In a fascinating journey of rediscovery, Max Adams brings to life the forgotten experiences – and voices – of some of the most extraordinary women in history. Unquiet Women is an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history. Wynflad was an Anglo-Sa ...Show more
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