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A Little History of Archaeology by Brian Fagan
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is a ...Show more
A Little History of Archaeology by Brian Fagan
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories | Reading Level: very good
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is a ...Show more
Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans by Brian Fagan
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
In Beyond the Blue Horizon, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring quest to master the oceans, the planet's most mysterious terrain. We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages. From t ...Show more
Beyond the Blue Horizon - How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans by Brian Fagan
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages. In Beyond the Blue Horizon, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring quest to master the oceans, the planet's most mysterious terrain. From t ...Show more
Bigger Than History - Why Archaeology Matters by Brian Fagan; Nadia Durrani
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Why does archaeology matter? How does studying prehistory help us understand climate change? How can archaeological discoveries challenge contemporary assumptions about gender? How has archaeology been used and misused to support political and nationalist agendas - and how can it help build a more diver ...Show more
Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors by Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not ...Show more
Elixir : A Human History of Water by Brian Fagan
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
"Elixir: A Human History of Water" spans five millennia, from the beginnings of civilisation to the global water shortages of today. Our present-day interaction with this most essential resource has deep roots in the remote past, and every human culture has been shaped by its relationship to water. From ...Show more
Fish on Friday : Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World by Brian M. Fagan
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? Fish on Friday tells the story of the discovery of America as a product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic ...Show more
Fishing - How the Sea Fed Civilization by Brian Fagan
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
In this history of fishing--not as sport but as a sustainable food supply--archaeologist and the bestselling author of "The Great Warming" argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization.hardcover.
Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization by Brian Fagan
$64.99 NZD
Category: History
Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing-not as sport but as sustenance-archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of ...Show more
The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels by Brian Fagan
$36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Over the past fifteen thousand years the Earth has witnessed dramatic changes in sea level. The last Ice Age, when coastlines were more than 700 feet below modern levels, saw rapid global warming, and over the following ten millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These changes had little impac ...Show more
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian M. Fagan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A breakout bestseller on how the earth's previous global warming phase reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara--a wide-ranging history with sobering lessons for our own time. From the tenth to the fifteenth century the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate ...Show more