Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood - Softcover

Marozzi, Justin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141047100 ISBN 13: 9780141047102

Publisher: Penguin, 2015

Synopsis

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 numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors.

Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth.

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From the Back Cover:

South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara

'Justin Marozzi is that most precious rarity: a serious traveller who is also a real writer, with a wonderful feel for language, a gift for narrative and an enviable sensitivity and lightness of touch' William Dalrymple

'The first significant journey across the Libyan interior for a generation ... genuine exploration, the stuff from which all good travel books should be made' Michael Asher, TLS

Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World

'Outstanding ... Justin Marozzi is the most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians' John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph (Books of the Year)

'Marozzi creates a convincing portrait of a complex man living in an unsettled world ... he has brought the mighty warrior in from the cold and allowed him to stalk these pages with bloody magnificence' Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times

The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus

'The Man Who Invented History ... confirms Marozzi as a writer of real distinction and charm ... This is a book of remarkable substance and style, brimming with humanity [and] self-deprecating humour' Jeremy Seal, Sunday Telegraph

'"He celebrates the wonders of the world with a life-grabbing energy that is never less than infectious": so Marozzi praises his hero, but he might just as well have been describing himself ... A very Herodotean book ... entertaining, engaging and humane' Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

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'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0141047100
• ISBN 13: 9780141047102
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512