The Crusades Reference Library: Biographies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787691771 ISBN 13: 9780787691776

Publisher: UXL, 2004

Synopsis

The Crusades covers everything from the First Crusade (1095-99) through the Ninth Crusade (1271-72).

The Crusades: Biographies explores many key figures, such as Pope Urban II, Saladin, Pope Innocent III, Peter the Hermit, Richard I of England, Frederick I of Germany, Francis of Assisi, Stephen of Cloyes and others.

About this title

About the Author

J. Sydney Jones (b. 1948) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Born in the United States, he studied abroad in Vienna in 1968 and later returned to Austria to live there for nearly two decades. In the late 1970s he began writing travel books, many of which concern central Europe, and published his first thriller, "Time of the Wolf", in 1990. In 2009 Jones published "The Empty Mirror", a mystery set in late-nineteenth-century Vienna that would become the first book in his Viennese Mystery series, of which the most recent installment is "The Keeper of Hands" (2013). Jones lives with his wife and son in California.

Edition details

• Publisher: UXL
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787691771
• ISBN 13: 9780787691776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Schlager Neil, Jones J Sydney, Means Marcia Merryman