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  • Batavia's Graveyard

    The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Meeting

    by Mike Dash ...
    From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia’s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival.It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company’s flagship, was loaded with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company’s fleet, a tangible symbol of the world’s ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Feathered Gods and Fishhooks

    The Archaeology of Ancient Hawai‘i, Revised Edition

    The first edition of Feathered Gods and Fishhooks was the pioneering synthesis of ancient Hawaiian civilization from an archaeological perspective. This long-awaited revised edition now brings the field up to date, incorporating the results from hundreds of archaeological projects undertaken throughout the Hawaiian Islands over the past thirty-five years that have benefited from tremendous ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Scratch One Flattop

    The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea

    A study of the historic World War II naval battle, the first involving aircraft carriers and first in which neither warship was in sight of the other.By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Braided Waters

    Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii

    by Wade Graham ...
    Series Book 11 - Western Histories
    Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii’s Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources—especially water—in a fragile, highly ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Frommer's Hawaii 2025

    Series series Complete Guide
    Comprehensive and fully updated, Frommer’s Hawaii covers all the major Hawaiian Islands, and takes you from world-famous beaches to secluded rain-forests to authentic luaus and everywhere in between.Frommer’s only works with expert, seasoned journalists, and on this title both know every inch of the islands and they’re not afraid to tell the truth. With their reliable, straight-shooting advice, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ship That Wouldn't Die

    The Saga of the USS Neosho- A World War II Story of Courage and Survival at Sea

    by Don Keith ...
    An acclaimed naval historian tells one of the most inspiring sea stories of World War II: the Japanese attack on the American oiler USS Neosho and the gutsy crew’s struggle for survival as their slowly sinking ship drifted—lost, defenseless, and alone—on the treacherous Coral Sea.In May 1942, Admiral Jack Fletcher’s Task Force 17 closed in for the war’s first major clash with the Japanese Navy. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Six Months in the Sandwich Islands

    This classic of Hawaiian literature offers a charming glimpse at the splendid and fascinating world of preAmerican Hawaii.Isabella Lucy Bird won fame in her own time as the most remarkable woman traveler of the nineteenth century, and Six Months in the Sandwich Isles, in which she describes her sojourn in Hawaii in 1873, is one of the gems of Pacific literature. It is safe to say that no other ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Melbourne

    Series series The City Series
    Melbourne's a city you get to know from the inside out—you have to walk it to love it. My favourite time to do this is at night. That's when you capture glimpses of people—eating, laughing, talking, arguing, watching TV, and reading—through half-open terrace house doors and windows...it is a city of inside places and conversation. Of intimacy. Melbourne begins on Black Saturday, the day that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sparrows of Edward Street

    A wonderfully witty and entertaining retelling of a little-known yet very important period of Australia’s history, this is a fictionalized account of acclaimed Australian writer Elizabeth Stead’s experiences in a 1940s postwar housing commission camp. It’s November 1948, and the widowed Hanora Sparrow and her teenage daughters, Aria and Rosy, have fallen on tough times; when they move into a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Healthy Country?

    A History of Life & Death in New Zealand

    Did Maori or Europeans live longer when Captain James Cook arrived in New Zealand in 1769? Why were Pakeha New Zealanders the healthiest, longest-lived people on the face of the globe for 80 years—and why did Maori not enjoy the same life expectancy? Why were New Zealanders' health and longevity surpassed by other nations in the late 20th century? Through lively text and quantitative analysis ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Ape and Human

    An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid

    by Gregory Forth ...
    A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrum—and whether or not they still survive.While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across people talking about half-apelike, half-humanlike creatures that once lived in a cave on the slopes of a nearby volcano. Over the years he continued to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Voyagers

    The Settlement of the Pacific

    An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change

    by Iain McCalman ...
    Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier, and a precarious World Heritage site. Now the historian and explorer Iain McCalman takes us on a new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ambon

    The truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit

    by Roger Maynard ...
    Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it were captured. Over a thousand of these soldiers were Australian. By the end of the war, just one-third of them had survived and Ambon became a place of nightmares, one of the most notorious of all POW ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Australian Ghost Stories

    New haunting true crime stories of the supernatural and paranormal from the bestselling author of AUSTRALIA'S MOST INFAMOUS JAIL and AUSTRALIAN HEIST

    by James Phelps ...
    Haunting true crime stories of the supernatural and paranormalThe most haunted home that world-famous ghost hunter Lorraine Warren ever stepped foot in was a three-bedroom brick home in suburban Sydney.FORGET THE HORRORS OF AMITYVILLE AND DELVE INTO AUSTRALIA'S MOST HAUNTED PLACESAustralian Ghost Stories is a spine-tingling collection of true crime tales that will leave you feeling haunted long ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Torpedo Run

    The Story of WWII Submarine Hero Eugene B. Fluckey

    by Don Keith ...
    Series series American War Heroes
    The remarkable true story of Eugene Fluckey, the US Navy’s most innovative—and aggressive—submarine commander of World War IIOver the course of five combat patrols during the Pacific War, Commander Fluckey reinvented submarine warfare, pioneering audacious strategies to hunt and sink Japanese warships and merchant vessels. At the helm of the USS Barb, he directed his boat to attack warship convoys ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The History of Tahiti

    Tahiti is situated in South Latitude 17°40' and West Longitude 149° 25'. In other words, upon the opposite side of the world from the middle of Africa, and nearly at the center of the Pacific Ocean. In outline, it is figure-8 shaped, being a twin island, consisting of two oval land masses joined by the low, narrow isthmus of Taravao. The major axis of the island extends from northwest to southeast ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Savage Harvest

    A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art

    by Carl Hoffman ...
    The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story.Despite exhaustive searches, no trace of Rockefeller was ever found. Soon after his disappearance, rumors surfaced that he'd been killed and ceremonially ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Bomber Mafia

    A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

    Dive into this “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war—from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History.In The Bomber Mafia*,* Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Fatal Shore

    The epic of Australia's founding

    by Robert Hughes ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today."One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times**Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Captive Paradise

    A History of Hawaii

    The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Outback Calls You Back

    One man's journey into Outback Australia rekindles distant memories. Forty two years earlier in 1976, the land was harsh and unforgiving, in 2018 he finds that not much has changed, the land is still harsh and unforgiving, some towns have grown while others have become a ghost of their past. This is the true story of a camping trip to the outback that didn't go according to plan. ... Read more

    Free

  • Final Patrol

    True Stories of World War II Submarines

    by Don Keith ...
    During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners.But despite the odds, these underwater warriors accounted for almost 60 percent of Japanese shipping losses, and were a major factor in winning the war. 16 U.S. submarines - and one German U-Boat - that saw action during WWII are now open ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • In the South Seas

    The author of Treasure Island shares true stories of his travels in the Pacific in these portraits of nineteenth-century Tahiti, New Zealand, and beyond.Setting sail from San Francisco in June 1888, the author of Kidnapped and other classic adventure fiction embarked on a journey of his own. Having endured periods of illness and isolation in his earlier years, Robert Louis Stevenson was determined ... Read more

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