Tamerlane (Häftad)
avJustin Marozzi
ISBN: 9780007116126 - UTGIVEN: 200510A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history's most extreme tyrants, and the subject of Marlowe's famous play. Marozzi travelled in the footsteps of the great Mogul Emperor of Samarkland to write this wonderful combination of histor[...]
Baghdad (Häftad)
avJustin Marozzi
ISBN: 9780141047102 - UTGIVEN: 2015-05Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of grea[...]
The Way of Herodotus (Pocket)
avJustin Marozzi
ISBN: 9780306818578 - UTGIVEN: 2010-02Intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the Mediterranean and Middle East, examining Herodotus's 2,500-year-old observations about the cultures and places he visited and finding echoes of his legacy reverberating to this day. The Way of Herodotus is a liv[...]
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood--A History in Thirteen Centuries (Inbunden)
avJustin Marozzi
ISBN: 9780306823985 - UTGIVEN: 2014-11For much of its extraordinary life, Baghdad, known for centuries as the "City of Peace," enjoyed both cultural and commercial preeminence. For five centuries it was the seat of the Abbasid Empire, a marvel of glittering palaces, exquisite parks, magnificent mosques, and Islamic colleges. It was a ci[...]
Baghdad (Inbunden)
avJustin Marozzi
ISBN: 9781846143137 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travelwriter-historian Justin Marozzi gives us a many-layered history of one of the world's truly great cities - both its spectacular golden ages and its terrible disasters. "Justin Marozzi is the most brilliant of the new generation of trav[...]
