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Ambush at Cisco Swamp by Robert Irwin
Category: Children's | Series: Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter
Discover a world of prehistoric adventure and dinosaurs with Robert Irwin! The Irwins are in Texas, doing some crocodilian research on the American alligator. Robert knows that the ancient deinosuchus roamed around these parts, and when his fossil transports him back in time, he gets to see firsthand th ...Show more
Ambush at Cisco Swamp (Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter #2) by Robert Irwin
Category: Children's | Series: Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter
Discover a world of prehistoric adventure and dinosaurs with Robert Irwin! The Irwins are in Texas, doing some crocodilian research on the American Alligator. Robert knows that the ancient deinosuchus roamed around these parts, and when his fossil transports him back in time, he gets to see firsthand th ...Show more
Armoured Defence (Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter #3) by Robert Irwin & Jack Wells
Category: Children's | Series: Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter
Robert and his best friend Riley are visiting the Canadian badlands in Alberta with Riley's Uncle Nate. The badlands are home to over 35 different species of dinosaur fossils. Robert and Riley get pulled back in time to Alberta, Canada during the Late Cretaceous period, to find a heavily armoured euoplo ...Show more
Big Book of Dinosaurs by Robert Irwin
Category: Children's Educational
Everything you've ever wanted to know about dinosaurs ...and more! Join Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter as he tracks down the greatest dinosaurs of all time, learning just how these mighty creatures lived and roamed planet Earth. Journey with Robert as he visits the world's most renowned fossil museums an ...Show more
Camel by Robert Irwin
Category: Australian History | Series: Animal
A distinct symbol of the desert and the Middle East, the camel was once unkindly described as half snake, half folding bedstead. But in the eyes of many the camel is a creature of great beauty. This book explores why the camel has fascinated so many cultures, including those in places where camels are n ...Show more
Dinosaur Cove (Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter #7) by Robert Irwin
Category: Children's | Series: Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter
Discover a world of prehistoric adventure with Robert Irwin! Robert and Riley are visiting Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, a dig site that called into question whether all dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Even the boys can't seem to agree! When they get transported to a time when Australia was still connected to ...Show more
Eruption! (Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter #8) by Robert Irwin
Category: Children's | Series: Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter
Discover a world of prehistoric dinosaur adventure with Robert Irwin! While trekking up Mount Ruapehu, an active volcano in New Zealand, Robert and Riley are transported back to the Late Cretaceous. They encounter herds of hadrosaurs, ceratopsians and titanosaurs u and even a dinosaur graveyard! But a s ...Show more
For Lust of Knowing : the Orientalists and their enemies by Robert Irwin
Category: History
Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun al-Rashid's military campaigns against Byzantium, scholar ...Show more
Ibn Khaldun - An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin
Category: History
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the ...Show more
Memoirs of a Dervish by Robert Irwin
Category: Biography Memoir
For many children of the sixties a 'journey to the East' was a necessary rite of passage. In an extraordinary memoir Robert Irwin contrasts the contexts of England - the new culture and the hippy trail - with those of Algeria - bombs and guns and mysticism. In the summer of 1964, while a military coup w ...Show more