History
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Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Hardback
A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East
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Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents
Hardback
Winston Churchill’s frequent stays at the White House inform this illuminating account of America and Britain’s “Special Relationship” during the Second World War and the 1950s
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years
Paperback
The 30th-anniversary edition of a historical account, called “brilliantly original” by Katha Pollitt (The Washington Post Book World), that reframed our understanding of women’s lives in early societies
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
Hardback
A captivating history of civilisation that reveals the central role of the horse in culture, commerce and conquest
American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs
Paperback
The epic road trips—and surprising friendship—of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age