Author: Marshall B. Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780070154346
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Companion vol. to A. Horizon guide: great historic places of Europe.
The Horizon Book of Great Historic Places of Europe
Author: Marshall B. Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780070154346
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Companion vol. to A. Horizon guide: great historic places of Europe.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780070154346
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Companion vol. to A. Horizon guide: great historic places of Europe.
Great Historic Places of Europe
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Horizon Guide: Great Historic Places of Europe
Author: Beverley Hilowitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Companion volume to M.B. Davidson's The Horizon book of great historic places of Europe.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Companion volume to M.B. Davidson's The Horizon book of great historic places of Europe.
Great Historic Places of Europe
Author: Marshall Bowman Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500240939
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500240939
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Lords of the Horizons
Author: Jason Goodwin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466874872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
"A work of dazzling beauty...the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing." --The New York Times Book Review Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three centuries it advanced from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at the Empire's height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched its aid. For the next three hundred years the Empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay. Early in the twentieth century it fell. In this dazzling evocation of its power, Jason Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and how, against all odds, they lingered on. In the process he unfolds a sequence of mysteries, triumphs, treasures, and terrors unknown to most American readers. This was a place where pillows spoke and birds were fed in the snow; where time itself unfolded at a different rate and clocks were banned; where sounds were different, and even the hyacinths too strong to sniff. Dramatic and passionate, comic and gruesome, Lords of the Horizons is a history, a travel book, and a vision of a lost world all in one.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466874872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
"A work of dazzling beauty...the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing." --The New York Times Book Review Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three centuries it advanced from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at the Empire's height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched its aid. For the next three hundred years the Empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay. Early in the twentieth century it fell. In this dazzling evocation of its power, Jason Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and how, against all odds, they lingered on. In the process he unfolds a sequence of mysteries, triumphs, treasures, and terrors unknown to most American readers. This was a place where pillows spoke and birds were fed in the snow; where time itself unfolded at a different rate and clocks were banned; where sounds were different, and even the hyacinths too strong to sniff. Dramatic and passionate, comic and gruesome, Lords of the Horizons is a history, a travel book, and a vision of a lost world all in one.
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
The Penguin Book of the Renaissance
Author: John Harold Plumb
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141390949
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The society that produced the glories of Renaissance art was a multi-faceted one. on the one hand it produced the tender work of Giotto and the brilliance of Leonardo; on the other it encompassed the atrocities of Borgia, the fanaticism of Savonarola and the cynicism of Machiavelli. Civil disorder, political violence, religious discord and deep-seated corruption provided a setting in which genius flowered and where virtuosity originality and an explosive energy shone through in politics, in art, in thought and even in murder. Here, in this vivid survey, the whole sweep of renaissance achievement is brilliantly portrayed and analysed by Professor Plumb, assisted by a distinguished team of historians, including Kenneth Clark, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and Garrett Mattingly - and by over sixty illustrations of contemporary masterpieces.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141390949
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The society that produced the glories of Renaissance art was a multi-faceted one. on the one hand it produced the tender work of Giotto and the brilliance of Leonardo; on the other it encompassed the atrocities of Borgia, the fanaticism of Savonarola and the cynicism of Machiavelli. Civil disorder, political violence, religious discord and deep-seated corruption provided a setting in which genius flowered and where virtuosity originality and an explosive energy shone through in politics, in art, in thought and even in murder. Here, in this vivid survey, the whole sweep of renaissance achievement is brilliantly portrayed and analysed by Professor Plumb, assisted by a distinguished team of historians, including Kenneth Clark, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and Garrett Mattingly - and by over sixty illustrations of contemporary masterpieces.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe
Author: Trudy Ring
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.