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Birds and Us
A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
2023 || Paperback || Tim Birkhead || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg collecting to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.
Weaving in stories from his own life as a scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in ...
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Great-Uncle Harry
A Tale of War and Empire
2023 || Paperback || Michael Palin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him.
The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters, and pored over photographs of First...
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The Earth Transformed
An Untold History
2023 || Paperback || Frankopan Peter Frankopan || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts.
In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new: exploring, for instance, the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; tracing how growing demands for harvests r...
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Pathogenesis
How infectious diseases shaped human history
2023 || Paperback || Jonathan Kennedy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Thrilling and eye-opening' Lewis Dartnell
'Unpicks everything we thought we knew... Mind blowing' Cal Flyn
Humans did not make history - we played host.
According to the accepted narrative of progress, a few great humans have bent the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Dr Jonathan Kennedy argues that germs have done more to shape humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam.
How d...
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Normal Women
2023 || Paperback || Philippa Gregory || Veltman Distributie Import Books
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history.
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Femina
The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
2023 || Paperback || Janina Ramirez || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading' - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones
'I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars' - Hildegard of Bingen (1098 ...
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Papyrus
THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER
2023 || Paperback || Irene Vallejo || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An enthralling 2,000-year journey through the history of books and reading. An international bestseller.
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The Race to the Future
The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century
2023 || Paperback || Kassia St Clair || Veltman Distributie Import Books
10 June 1907, Peking. Five cars set off in a desperate race across two continents on the verge of revolution.
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float them across rivers. Petrol is almost impossible to find, there are barely any roads, a...
The Sea War
2023 || Paperback || Hugh Sebag Montefiore || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the #1 bestselling author Hugh Sebag Montefiore, a spellbinding and fiercely told history of one of the most extreme episodes of the Second World War.
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The West
A New History of an Old Idea
2023 || Paperback || Naoise Mac Sweeney || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Awe-inspiring' Dr Janina Ramirez
'A book to savour' Sir Lawrence Freedman
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A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.
We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thread, leading through the centuries from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern West - a cultural genealogy that connects Plato to NATO. It is an idea often invoked in the speeches of politicians and the rh...