Vintage Books London Lords Of The Horizons: A History Of The Ottoman Empire

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Author: jason goodwin

publisher: vintage books uk

language: english

binding: paperback

summary: the ottoman empire has exerted a long, strong pull on western minds and hearts. Over six hundred years the empire swelled and declined

the royal line bent, but never broke, from osman, born in a desert tent around 1280 to abdul mecid, dying in a paris flat in 1942. Its precipitous rise from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of anatolia to a power that ruled on the danube and the euphrates stunned contemporaries. For three hundred years it held sway and istanbul had the richest court in europe. But the decline was prodigious, protracted, and total. Dramatic and passionate, detailed and alive, comic and gruesome, the ottoman empire charts the swirling history from the first campaigns to the charge of the light brigade, from the crusades to the dardenelles, and brings to life countless aspects of ottoman life, caravans carrying parcels of spices and bags of gold, western emissaries witnessing executions, distant sentries on far frontiers, jewels, meals, shadow plays and stray dogs. A history, a journey, and a world all in one.

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