True stories: discovery, historical & scientific books

672 books were found.

Against The Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story

Against The Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story

Author: Ejnar Mikkelsen ,  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
ISBN: 9781586423346
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing,...  Read More >>

The Opium Smugglers: A True Story of Our Northern Seas

The Opium Smugglers: A True Story of Our Northern Seas...

Author: Ion Idriess
ISBN: 9781922698070
Format: Paperback
$29.95

When Dick and “jack Idriess went aboard the Nancy Bell at Cooktown – they thought they were signing on for a trochus-fishing...  Read More >>

Missions to Mars: A New Era of Rover and Spacecraft Discovery on the Red Planet

Missions to Mars: A New Era of Rover and Spacecraft...

Author: Larry Crumpler
ISBN: 9780008407261
Format: Hardback
$55.00

From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of...  Read More >>

Tupac Behind Bars

Tupac Behind Bars

Author: Michael Christopher
ISBN: 9781592111374
Format: Hardback
$65.97

Tupac Behind Bars is a glimpse inside the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s tumultuous time in Dannemora....  Read More >>

The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19...

Author: Joe Miller ,  Ugur Sahin
ISBN: 9781802791242
Format: Paperback
$36.99

How do you develop a life-saving drug when every second counts and one mistake could be catastrophic?  Read More >>

A Jolly Life: The Life and Times of Charles Theophilus Hahn

A Jolly Life: The Life and Times of Charles Theophilus...

Author: John Odling-Smee
ISBN: 9781861519764
Format: Paperback
$38.81

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Twenty to the Mile: The Overland Telegraph Line: The Greatest Engineering Feat of 19th Century Australia

Twenty to the Mile: The Overland Telegraph Line: The...

Author: Derek Pugh
ISBN: 9780648142195
Format: Paperback
$39.95

The greatest engineering problem facing Australia – the tyranny of distance – had a solution: the electric telegraph,...  Read More >>

Back O'Cairns: Trekking the Cape York Peninsula

Back O'Cairns: Trekking the Cape York Peninsula

Author: Ion Idriess
ISBN: 9780648739043
Format: Paperback
$41.37

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I You We Them: Revealing the ‘desk killers’, perpetrators of crimes against humanity

I You We Them: Revealing the ‘desk killers’, perpetrators...

Author: Dan Gretton
ISBN: 9780099592372
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A landmark historical investigation into crimes against humanity and the nature of evil that is over two decades...  Read More >>

Come Fly the World: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace

Come Fly the World: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace...

Author: Julia Cooke
ISBN: 9781785787799
Format: Paperback
$25.99

Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.  Read More >>

Tracks of Destiny: From Derby to Tennant Creek

Tracks of Destiny: From Derby to Tennant Creek

Author: Ion Idriess
ISBN: 9781922473936
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Back in print after 60 years. Ion Idriess was one of those who set out from Derby with the ending of the Wet. This...  Read More >>

A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking Science Behind the Covid-19 Vaccines

A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking...

Author: Gregory Zuckerman
ISBN: 9780241531716
Format: Paperback
$35.00

The story of the race for the Covid-19 vaccine as you've never heard it before This is the definitive account of...  Read More >>

A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking Science Behind the Covid-19 Vaccines

A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking...

Author: Gregory Zuckerman
ISBN: 9780241531709
Format: Hardback
$45.00

The story of the race for the Covid-19 vaccine as you've never heard it before This is the definitive account of...  Read More >>

The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's greatest explorer

The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's greatest...

Author: Peter FitzSimons
ISBN: 9780733647765
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist,...  Read More >>

First Knowledges Country: Future Fire, Future Farming

First Knowledges Country: Future Fire, Future Farming...

Author: Bruce Pascoe ,  William Leonard Gammage
ISBN: 9781760761554
Format: Paperback
$24.99

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides...  Read More >>

The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's greatest explorer

The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's greatest...

Author: Peter FitzSimons
ISBN: 9780733641367
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist,...  Read More >>

100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World

100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World

Author: Colin Salter
ISBN: 9781911663546
Format: Hardback
$32.99

Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day...  Read More >>

Duck Tale: Memoir of a Quacking Good Trek to Manhood

Duck Tale: Memoir of a Quacking Good Trek to Manhood...

Author: Richard C Meehan
ISBN: 9781737297505
Format: Hardback
$56.80

A memoir set in 1960s South Carolina, Duck Tale contains 66,000 words, 83 illustrations, and bonus recipes.  Read More >>

A Victorian Workhouse - Lives Of The Paupers: Mildenhall Suffolk

A Victorian Workhouse - Lives Of The Paupers: Mildenhall...

Author: Danny Pearson
ISBN: 9781399906883
Format: Paperback
$25.88

Based on the author's own research, this book shares stories of the destitute of Mildenhall and the surrounding...  Read More >>

The Da Vinci Fraud: The True Story of Dan Brown and the World's Greatest Literary Crime

The Da Vinci Fraud: The True Story of Dan Brown and...

Author: Jack Dunn
ISBN: 9781913727116
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Jack Dunn's explosive true account of the greatest literary fraud in history and a book which will change forever...  Read More >>

Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma

Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling...

Author: Helene Munson
ISBN: 9780750997119
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime  Read More >>

Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made My Family Stronger, Happier ... and Less American

Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made My...

Author: Damien Cave
ISBN: 9781760857097
Format: Paperback
$34.99

When Damien Cave brought his young family to Sydney to set up the New York Times' Australian Bureau, they encountered...  Read More >>

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration...

Author: Kate Greene
ISBN: 9781785787775
Format: Paperback
$23.99

A powerful reflection on life in isolation, in pursuit of the dream of Mars.  Read More >>

I Piped, That She Might Dance: The Lost Journal of Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria

I Piped, That She Might Dance: The Lost Journal of Angus...

Author: Iain MacDonald ,  Hugh Cheape
ISBN: 9781735774701
Format: Paperback
$50.13

A remarkable debut novel telling the story of Angus MacKay's (1812-1859) turbulent life - from his boyhood on Raasay,...  Read More >>

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