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  • The Last Crusaders

    The Hundred-Year Battle for the Center of the World

    par Barnaby Rogerson ...
    The acclaimed Medieval historian examines how the crusades of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries reshaped the Mediterranean and influenced the globe.In the late Middle Ages, the forces of Christianity engaged in a series of epic battles with the Ottoman Empire. Though these later crusades are often overshadowed by earlier conflicts, they hold profound historical significance. They were the ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Brazilian Adventure

    par Peter Fleming, Barnaby Rogerson ...
    It began with an advertisement in The Times: 'Leaving England June, to explore rivers Central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Fawcett; abundance game, big and small; exceptional fishing; room two more guns.' Colonel Fawcett and his son Jack had embarked on a journey in 1925 in search of a supposed lost city in the Amazon and were never seen again. This expedition was too much of a ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The House Divided

    Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

    par Barnaby Rogerson ...
    An incisive look at the past, present, and future of the religious divide that lies at the heart of the Middle East.At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to revisit its origins—which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632; the accidental ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • On Travel and the Journey through Life

    Modifié par Barnaby Rogerson ...
    On Travel presents a pyrotechnic display of cracking one-liners, cynical wordplay and comic observation, mining three thousand years of global wit and wisdom: from Pliny to Spinoza and from Albert Einstein to Aunt Augusta. Beyond the mad diversity of opinions and ideas, there is a gradually emerging consensus: that other people are crucial to our understanding of ourselves and that there is more ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Bengal Lancer

    par Francis Yeats-Brown, Barnaby Rogerson ...
    When Francis Yeats-Brown set off in 1905 to take up a commission in the British Indian Army, little did he know how deeply he would fall in love with the culture of India and her spiritual traditions. Between duties with his regiment, and enjoying the off-duty life of an officer – polo and hunting, ponies and dogs – he would disappear in search of a guru to lead him in the essentials of yoga, ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Rogerson's Book of Numbers

    The Culture of Numbers—from 1,001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World

    par Barnaby Rogerson ...
    THE STORIES BEHIND OUR ICONIC NUMBERSRogerson's Book of Numbers is based on a numerical array of virtues, spiritual attributes, gods, devils, sacred cities, powers, calendars, heroes, saints, icons, and cultural symbols.It provides a dazzling mass of information for those intrigued by the many roles numbers play in folklore and popular culture, in music and poetry, and in the many religions, ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Hard Lying

    An Intelligence Officer on the Levantine Shore 1914–19

    par Lewen Weldon, Barnaby Rogerson ...
    Lewen Weldon was mapping the desert of Egypt when the First World War broke out. A fluent Arabic speaker, he was recruited to run a network of spies and confidential agents from a steam yacht onto the Syrian coast behind Turkish lines. He took his men ashore in small boats at night, which also allowed him to land and conduct personal interviews before returning back through the surf. This vivid ... En savoir plus

    $13.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell

    Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist

    par Kevin Rushby, William Dalrymple ...
    Bruce Wannell was the greatest Orientalist traveller of his generation: a Paddy Leigh Fermor of the East, a Kim for our time. He lived through the Iranian Revolution, worked for a decade in the North West Frontier during the wars in Afghanistan, could transcribe the most complex Arabic calligraphy by sight and spoke Iranian and Afghan Persian with a dazzling, poetic fluency. His curious ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad

    And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism

    par Barnaby Rogerson ...
    The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Last Storytellers

    Tales from the Heart of Morocco

    par Richard Hamilton ...
    Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences. But this unique chain of oral tradition that has passed seamlessly from generation to generation is teetering on the brink of extinction. The ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Last Crusaders

    East, West and the Battle for the Centre of the World

    par Barnaby Rogerson ...
    The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the last great conflict between East and West - the battles that were fought and the men who led the armies that fought them. It was, in its way, the first world war. ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • In Search of Ancient North Africa

    A History in Six Lives

    par Barnaby Rogerson ...
    During years of travelling through North Africa, author Barnaby Rogerson has encountered a handful of stories so complicated that he could not place them into neat, tidy narratives. These are stories of characters who were neither distinctly good nor noticeably bad, neither malicious nor noble. In Search of Ancient North Africa is a journey into the ruins of a landscape to make sense of these ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD