David Day

The history of the world has been the history of peoples on the move, as they occupy new lands and establish their claims over them. Almost invariably, this has meant the violent dispossession of the previous inhabitants. Whether it is the Normans in England, the Chinese in Tibet, the Germans in Poland, the Indonesians in West Papua, or the British...

Od wieków pierścień jest ponadczasowym symbolem w religiach i mitologiach świata. Opowieści o poszukiwaniu pierścienia pojawiły się na długo przed wzniesieniem egipskich piramid czy murów Babilonu. Tradycja ta przeżyła upadek bogów starożytnych imperiów, narodziny buddyzmu, islamu i chrześcijaństwa. J. R. R. Tolkien był wielkim znawcą i...

A BiographySince the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics....

A BiographyThe first ever major international history of the world's most forbidding continent - from the eighteenth-century voyages of discovery to the fierce commercial and geopolitical rivalries of today...

How Societies Overwhelm OthersA radical new history of conquest through the ages, showing how conquering societies have established their claims to the lands of the conquered and how this has affected the invaded peoples, the invaders themselves, and the wider world...