ROSENBERG GIFT PACK
Choosing a single book either for yourself or for a friend or loved one is always difficult. Assume an interest in the wider world. The Rosenberg Gift Pack provides four exceptional books for the single price of $160 plus postage. The books in the set are: Stephen Martin’s A History of the Antarctica, Kevin Baker’s War in Afghanistan and Ian Burnet’s Spice Islands and The West Indies.
A History of the Antarctica utilises material from books, diaries and letters, and from Stephen Martin’s experience spanning 20 years to illuminate the main themes of Antarctic history. The author lives in Sydney .and has travelled to Antarctica many times as a lecturer, tourist and sailor. He worked for several years with major collections of Antarctic sources, including those of the State Library of New South Wales and ACE collection of Kerry Stokes. Using personal stories and images of the men and women who explored, worked and lived in the frozen and remote continent, Martin traces the patterns of human activity in the Antarctic from the exploratory voyages of the 16th Century to the modern expeditions of adventurers and tourists.
The War in Afghanistan is a well researched history which presents an important background briefing to the conflicts in Afghanistan and Northwest Pakistan from 1839. There have been few books which put the conflicts into the broadest perspective, and even fewer that also include in their narrative descriptions of the numerous wars and conflicts on the Northwest Frontier as well as Afghanistan. This book includes information on all such wars in Afghanistan, not just those involving British armies, and also describes their background. Author Kevin Baker is now Visiting Fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Ian Burnet’s East Indies details the 200 year struggle between Portuguese Crown, the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company for supremacy in the Eastern Seas. Driven by the search for spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains and other oriental goods, the struggle for supremacy between the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English ranged across the Eastern Seas and in the settlements of Goa, Malacca, Ambon, Macao, Canton, Nagasaki, Solor, Batavia, Macassar, Johor and Singapore. The story is told by the history of these port cities, beginning with Malacca – one of the world’s largest trading ports in 16th Century – and ending with the founding of Singapore and Hong Kong. Cloves and nutmeg are indigenous to the Spice Islands of Eastern Indonesia.
Ian Burnet’s Spice Islands tells of the many uses of these exotic spices and the history of their trade over a period of more than 2000 years. It follows the Silk Road across Central Asia and the Spice Route over the Indian Ocean and describes how the spice trade into Europe came to be dominated by Middle Eastern and Venetian merchants. Backed by the Crowns of Portugal and Spain, explorers such as Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Magellan dreamt of capturing this trade by sailing directly to the Spice Islands, driving the maritime exploration of the world known as ‘The Age of Discovery’. Author Ian Burnet lives in Sydney and has spent more than 20 years living, working and travelling in the Indonesian archipelago in his professional career as a geologist/geophysicist. Assume an interest in the wider world.
The Rosenberg Gift Pack. $160 plus postage.
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