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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
39.95 NZD
55.00 (27% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history publishing. "Monumental...provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to i ...Show more
Complete History of Britain (3 Vol. Slipcase Edition) by Simon Schama
99.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
From early England and the Tudors through the British Wars of the 17th century to the rise and fall of the British Empire, award-winning historian Simon Schama illuminates British history through a variety of historical themes and key British characters.
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
69.99 NZD
Category: History
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Hang-Ups : Essays on painting (mostly) by Simon Schama
42.99 NZD
49.99 (14% off)
Category: Fine Art
Pre-eminent author and art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim. Hang-Ups, a personal selection of his articles from, amongst other publications, The New Yorker, contains pieces on artists as diverse as David Hockney, Rembrandt, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. ...Show more
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
64.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Second hand. good condition. The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained...'One of the most intelligent, original, stimulating, self-indulgent, perverse and irresistibly enjoyable books I have ever read. ' Philip ZieglerLandscape and Mem ...Show more
Rembrandt\'s Eyes by Simon Schama
72.95 NZD
79.95 (8% off)
Category: Fine Art | Series: Allen Lane History S.
In this biography, Simon Schama combines a mastery of the painter\\\'s life and times with sympathy for Rembrandt\\\'s character as it found both expression and transformation in his art.
Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama
50.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art
A masterful portrait of one of the most celebrated painters of all time This dazzling, unconventional biography shows us why, more than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt continues to exert such a hold on our imagination. Interweaving the few known facts of the Dutch master's life with fully ill ...Show more
Rough Crossings by Simon Schama
29.99 NZD
Category: History
"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires ...Show more
Rough Crossings : Britain, The Slaves and The American Revolution by Simon Schama
59.99 NZD
Category: History
Britain, the slaves, and the American RevolutionSet against the backdrop of the American Revolution and its aftermath, Rough Crossings is the gripping, astonishing epic of the struggle for freedom by tens of thousands of slaves who believed that their future as free men and women was bound up with stayi ...Show more
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
32.99 NZD
Category: History
"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires ...Show more
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
64.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good
'Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called 'Taste of the Garden of Eden'. Expel me, please. Haddock in the air? That would be Thursday. The faintest whiff of roasting garlic? That would be what my sister and I uncharitably du ...Show more
Simon Schama's Power of Art by Simon Schama
89.99 NZD
99.99 (10% off)
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merc ...Show more