Penguin Books Australia

This extraordinary book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to tell one of the greatest of all human stories: how, over a thousand years and more a culture of semi- itinerant farmers created a rich, vivid, strange world that had its first culmination in the pharaoh Khufu building the Great Pyramid, one of the most astounding of all human-made landmarks.

In The Complete Idiot s Guide to Ancient Greece , readers...

'May God forgive us for our sorry deeds and for our glorious intentions'

THIS IS A TRAVEL BOOK IN THE GRAND SENSE.  THE HORIZONS IT EXPLORES ARE OF LAND AND SEA, AND OF THE MIND.

Greek Pilgrimage is a meditation on classical Greece, journeying through its great sites, monuments, and cultural works. On the way, it examines the country's pivotal role in the foundation of the modern world. We who are born into the West are all Greeks. Here lie our roots.

DK Eyewitness Ancient Rome is a spectacular and informative guide to one of history's greatest civilizations, the Romans, their conquests and achievements that have shaped modern society. Amazing colour photographs offer your child a unique 'eyewitness' view of these incredible civilisations.

Show your child what life was like for the average Roman and discover the many ancient gods that they worshipped...

DK Eyewitness Ancient Egypt is a spectacular and informative guide to one of history's most remarkable civilisations, the Egyptians. Amazing colour photographs offer your child a unique 'eyewitness' view of these incredible empires.

Travel back in time and show your child what life was like and how ordinary Egyptians and Pharaohs lived. They'll also discover what's inside the Great Pyramid at Giza...

The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Cruise Guide to Europe and the Mediterranean is your indispensible guide to cruising through this spectacular region. From Athens to Oslo, it covers 70 ports of call, and includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of all the major sites, plus birds-eye-view maps to ensure you don't miss a thing.

January 2012 will mark the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's arrival at the South Pole with his team. After a gruelling 11 month journey, on reaching the South Pole, Scott was to discover the tent and flag of the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who had achieved the goal just weeks earlier with his men. Tragically Scott's entire party died on the return journey. The bodies, journals and photographs...

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities.

An indispensable guide to the creative output of the Roman empire.

In this companion volume to Gisela Richter's Handbook of Greek Art , the subject of Roman art is treated by a team of 11 experts. Extending in time from Early Rome to Late Antiquity, and including the provinces as well as Rome and Italy, the book covers a vast scope, ranging from architecture and painting to jewellery, coins and inscriptions...

For the centennial of the birth of Silent Spring author Rachel Carson, a new edition of her groundbreaking paean to the sea

I had the ambition to not only go as far as anyone had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go. —Lieutenant James Cook, 1771

The mighty Tasman Sea casts a spell on all who venture into it. Here, for the first time, is a book that tells its remarkable life story, from its early origins to the multi-layered human experience of it . . . whenever...

'An amusing and lively book, stuffed full of anecdotes and interesting titbits' Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

'May God forgive us for our sorry deeds and for our glorious intentions'

Who were the men governing the Empire in the nineteenth century? How were they chosen and controlled? How did they see their mission? And why did they do it?

'An enthralling narrative'  Economist

'The Carthaginians finally get their due . . .  well-paced and compelling … In bringing the real Carthage to the fore, Carthage Must Be Destroyed makes a substantial contribution to the field'   Financial Times

'Lively and compelling'   Literary Review

'Thoughtful and meticulous . . . fascinating'  Guardian

'A superb achievement'...

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome obstacles in the afterlife. The papyruses were often left in sarcophagi for the dead to use as passports on their journey from burial, and were full of advice...

Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in 1930; his travels in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya and the Congo, coping with unbearable heat and plagued by mosquitoes;...