Levant - Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

Zusatztext 'An enthralling history of Alexandria! Beirut and Smyrna! those vanished worlds of cosmopolitan high culture and society' Informationen zum Autor Philip Mansel is a historian of France and the Ottoman Empire. He has written histories of Constantinople and nineteenth-century Paris, as well as biographies of Louis XVIII and the Prince de Ligne. Six of his books have been translated into French. He writes for the Art Newspaper, the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator. While writing LEVANT, he lived in Beirut and Istanbul. In 2012 Philip Mansel was awarded the prestigious London Library Life in Literature Award in recognition of the quality of both his writing and his scholarship. Klappentext The first English-language history of the Levant in the modern age The first English-language history of the Levant in the modern age Zusammenfassung The first English-language history of the Levant in the modern age

Product details

• Authors: Philip Mansel, Mansel Philip
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.09.2011
• EAN: 9780719567087
• ISBN: 978-0-7195-6708-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Middle East; HISTORY / Middle East / General, General & world history, General and world history