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City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley
30.00 NZD
Category: History
The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. In City of Fortune, Roger Crowley, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea, applies his narrative skill to chronicling the astounding five-hundred-year voyage ...Show more
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
28.00 NZD
Category: History
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set ...Show more
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley
15.00 NZD
30.00 (50% off)
Category: History
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottom ...Show more
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture of the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Co ...Show more
The Accursed Tower - The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger Crowley
55.00 NZD
Category: History
From a New York Times-bestselling author comes a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian stronghold fell to the Muslim army.
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