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A concise, beautifully illustrated account of the history and archaeology of an iconic feature of the English landscape.

The story of the composition, first performances and cultural afterlife of one of the best-loved and most widely performed works in the entire history of music.

A biography of the great epic poem.

A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one the most influential statements in the history of democracy.

The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music.

An illustrated account of one of the most famous manuscripts in the world.

A concise account of the painting often described as the most important work of art produced in the twentieth century.

A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall.

The remarkable story of the Ancient Olympic Games, narrated in invigorating style by a leading classical scholar and translator.

A concise history of one of the world's greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753 to the present day.

A short and controversial new interpretation of arguably the most important revolution of all time: the event that made the rights of man and the demand for liberty, equality and fraternity central to modern politics.

A concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world.

From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal'I would not be surprised if, after reading this masterpiece, many readers are compelled to take up voyaging themselves' Science MagazineThousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples, are scattered across the vastness of the Pacific. The first European explorers to visit Oceania, from the sixteenth century on, were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving so many miles from the nearest continents. Who were these people? Where did they come from? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such immense tracts of ocean?In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas. From the third millennium BC, the Philippines, Indonesia, Micronesia and Melanesia were settled by Austronesian peoples of the western Pacific littoral. Later movements of Polynesian peoples took them even further afield, as far as Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island and - eventually - New Zealand, up to AD 1250.Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from linguistics, archaeology, and the re-enactment of voyages, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the sea-going technologies that enabled them, and the societies that they left in their wake.