Compiled by leading North African travel writer Barnaby Rogerson, this collection includes work from George Orwell. Winston Churchill, Gavin Maxwell, and Peter Mayne. It has enough wit, spice, glamor, humor, and cruelty to inspire the most bewildered tourist.
Compiled by leading North African travel writer Barnaby Rogerson, this collection includes work from George Orwell. Winston Churchill, Gavin Maxwell, ...
A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and ending with the Turkish attack on Belgrade in 1456, this reference is a comprehensive guide to the events of each Crusade, concentrating on the Near East, but also those Christian expeditions sanctioned by the Papacy as 'Crusades' in the medieval era. As well as clashes between Christians and Muslims in the Latin States,...
A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them thro...
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts. Frankopan...
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come...
