Baghdad
City of Peace, City of Blood
$49.91
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2015
Summary
The celebrated new history of one of the world’s truly great cities, through spectacular golden ages and terrible disasters.
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 hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and n…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141047102 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141047100 |
| Author: | Justin Marozzi |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 393g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Justin Marozzi
Justin Marozzi has spent most of his professional life living and working in the Muslim world, with long assignments in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon and Somalia. He is a former Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society and a Senior Research Fellow in Journalism and the Popular Understanding of History at Buckingham University. His previous books include South from Barbary- Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara (2001), the bestselling Tamerlane- Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (2004) and The Man Who Invented History- Travels with Herodotus (2008). His last book, Baghdad- City of Peace, City of Blood (2014) won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and was praised by the judges as ‘a truly monumental achievement’.
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