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Baghdad: City Of Peace, City Of Blood by Justin Marozzi
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Over 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 great ha ...Show more
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood by Justin Marozzi
$49.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
In 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 travelwr ...Show more
Islamic Empires by Justin Marozzi
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield and triumphant ...Show more
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilisation by Justin Marozzi
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while Europe cowered feebly at the margins. For centuries the caliphate was both ...Show more
The Arab Conquests: The spread of Islam and the first caliphates by Justin Marozzi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East | Series: The\Landmark Library
In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he h ...Show more
The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus by Justin Marozzi
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Herodotus is known as the Father of History, but he was much more than that. He was also the world's first travel writer, a pioneering geographer, anthropologist, explorer, moralist, tireless investigative reporter and enlightened multiculturalist before the word existed. He was at once learned professo ...Show more
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