The Tyranny Of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History

8 best books like The Tyranny Of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History (Geoffrey Blainey): Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, King of Ashes, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, The Street Sweeper, 1788, Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0739467352

"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0143036556

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...

King of Ashes

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0061468452

The first volume in legendary master and New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist’s epic heroic fantasy series, The Firemane Saga—an electrifying tale of two young men whose choices will determine a world’s destiny.

For centuries, the five greatest kingdoms of North and...

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

Author	Brian M. Fagan
ISBN	0465022723

The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has only recently confirmed that the world endured...

The Street Sweeper

Author	Elliot Perlman
ISBN	1594488479

How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away. From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing one another every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some stories survive...

1788

Author	Watkin Tench
ISBN	1875847278

Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Botany Bay with the First Fleet in January 1788. He was in his late twenties, a captain of the marines, and on the adventure of his life. Insatiably curious, with a natural genius for storytelling, Tench wrote two enthralling accounts of the infant colony - A Narrative of...

Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney

Author	John Birmingham
ISBN	0091842034

Author(s): John Birmingham ISBN: 9780091842031 Binding: Paperback Published: 2000-08-04 Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow history. Terrifying tsunamis, corpse-robbing morgue...

Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

Author	Rick Reilly
ISBN	0316528080

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming." -- The New Yorker

"Golf is the spine of this shocking, wildly humorous book, but humanity is its flesh and spirit." ...