Search Results: Titles starting with D from Lems Bookshop

The author, using the dispatches, tells the events covering the period 1894-1910 involving the Sino-Japanese War, Korea between Russia and Japan, Manchuria, The Russo-Japanese War, and the Shifting Sands especially concerning China. 272 pages. Book in very good condition ex library with small stamps inside front cover and title page, borrowing flap and sleave back endpapers and a catalogue number. Cover has fading (see photos). No dust jacket.

Told in the words of those who were there on one day in 1944 to participant in the largest, most complex invasion in the history of warfare. 320 pages with 8 pages of illustrations and 7 maps. Book in very good condition with fading, previous owners name and date on first page and wear to cover spine and small section on front (see photo).

The climatic battle of World War 2 - the day that shaped the twentieth century - the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence. 655 pages with 32 pages of black and white photographs, and 5 maps. Book in very good+ condition with minor wear to cover (see photo).

The battles of Omaha and Utah beaches based on information from American, British, Canadian, French and German veterans, from government and private archives, the author explains the most important day of the twentieth century. 655 pages with 20 pages of black and white photographs and 5 maps. Book in good condition ex library with stamp on first page and sticker on back endpaper and three quarter split to binding at page 520 and general reader wear. Dust jacket in very good condition.

A reassessment of one of the Second World War's great set-piece battles with a new Foreword for the 75th Anniversary Edition. 613 pages with 42 black and white photographs and 19 maps. Book in very good+ condition with booksellers sticker on back cover.

The defining drama of the second world war through the voices of the British, American and German soldiers who were there. 370 pages with 16 pages of photographs and a map. Book in good+ condition with Christmas greetings to previous owner on inside cover and three pages coming away from binding to about halfway and light tanning.

Daintree is one of the last great tropical rainforests in the world and where it meets the sea two of Australia's living wonders merge the other being the sand and coral of the Great Barrier Reef. 256 pages with numerous colour photographs throughout. Book in very good condition with some minor water damage. Dust jacket in good condition with three small tears, some knocks and chips. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.

The story of Daisy Bates who defied convention to live with the Aborigines who called her Kabbarli (Grandmother) and respected her to the extent they revealed to her tribal secrets taboo to their own women. Her unprecedented demands and unorthodox opinions were a constant irritant to government officials and established anthropologists. A women capable of both pragmatism and poetry - a legend in her own lifetime. 266 pages with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Book in very good condition with previous owners name and date on first page, and some tanning. Dust jacket in good condition with some small tears, knocks and chips (see photo).

William Dampier, a buccaneer known as the devils mariner, sailed the world three times surviving dangers and physical hardship of long years at sea. A hundred years before Cook he was the first Englishman to set foot in Australia. Also included is Dampier's journal from 1681 to 1691 which is published here for the first time. 545 pages with 8 colour plates and 10 black and white illustrations. Book is new.

Drawing on first-hand accounts and historical records, the author reconstructs the complex dance of curiosity, attraction and mistrust performed by the protagonists of either side on the landing of the First Fleet - then we discover why the dancing stopped. 322 pages with 8 colour and 2 black and white illustrations and a map. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

In 1944 the author escaped from an Austrian POW camp - the story of an incredible journey. 326 pages with 8 pages of photographs and black and white illustrations throughout and endpaper maps. Book in very good condition with light tanning.

Fiction based on fact - trading with the enemy during World War 2 and exposing it after the end of the war. 326 pages. Book in near fine condition.

On Wednesday 19 February, 1942 the Japanese air force bombed Darwin - what happened on that day which was later described as a day of national shame. 187 pages with 31 pages of black and white photographs and a map. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners name on first page.

Foreword by Roger Lewin and photographs by Sally Thompson. Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle in 1831 took him to the Galapagos Archipelago and a world in which time had stopped - a variety of animals found no where else in the world and he used his discoveries as the basis for his classic work, Origin of the Species. The Islands remained as isolated and unspoilt but the Government of Peru planned to build an airport on the biggest island prompting the commissioning of photographs and the publication of the book with Darwin's original comments about what he saw. 176 pages with 189 color plates and endpaper illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners details front endpaper. Dust jacket in very good+ condition in clear wrapper. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.

Man's Evolution Towards Peace. One of the great evolutionary mysteries is the three-fold increase in the size of the human brain in a remarkably short period of evolutionary time. Why did man,alone of animal species, need a brain of this size? 277 pages. Text clean but first blank page has a number and a price crossed out in top right corner. DJ intact but a large tear on spine and some small tears.

A fascinating visual account of the emergence and evolution of Earth's dominate species. The quest for evidence of our prehistoric origins - over a century of excavation and research has provided vast amounts of fossil and other evidence of our ancestors. 144 pages with illustrations on nearly all pages most in colour. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition with only issue the remnants of small booksellers sticker on front dust jacket (see photo). .

A contemporary view of the nature, structure and role of art. The techniques of the cave artists and the form of their figures are described and fully illustrated. 77 pages with 61 pages of illustrations. Book in very good+ condition ex library with sticker on first page, stamps and sticker remnants back end papers. Dust jacket in very good+ condition in clear wrapper which has two library stickers attached and one small tear top back.

Explains how various discoveries over the years are now interpreted and placed in context, and describes how old theories have often been overturned or reinterpreted as new evidence comes to light. 144 pages with over 150 color illustrations. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

The author introduces poems by Tennyson using various parts of the day in narrative. 48 pages with 6 colour paintings. Book in good+ condition with inscription to previous owner on first page, one picture loose, some tanning. Cover missing to spine but all intact and some wear.

Exactly what happened in Barrow Creek on 14 July 2001? Many questions remain unanswered and new facts have come to light. 432 pages with 16 pages of illustrations. Book in near fine condition.