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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorCity of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
Roger Crowley · 405 pages
A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure.
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
Laurence Bergreen · 415 pages
Venice: Pure City
Peter Ackroyd · 409 pages
"In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon. His account is at once romantic and packed with facts, conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, bridges and sunlit squares, the churches and the markets, the fiestas and the
The City of Falling Angels
John Berendt · 425 pages
The author of the record-breaking bestseller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil unveils the enigmatic Venice as only he canIt was twelve years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan · 382 pages
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations b
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Jack Weatherford · 317 pages
A history of the ruling women of the Mongol Empire, this work reveals their struggle to preserve a nation that shaped the world.
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
Norman Davies · 672 pages
The past is a foreign country' has become a truism, yet we often forget that the past is different from the present in many unfamiliar ways, and historical memory is extraordinarily imperfect. We habitually think of the European past as the history of countries which exist today - France, Germany, Britain, Russia and so on - but often this actually obstructs our view of the past, and blunts our se
The Story of Civilization (11 Volume Set)
Will Durant, Ariel Durant
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
David Abulafia · 783 pages
Ghost Empire
Richard Fidler · 516 pages
In 2014, Richard Fidler and his son Joe made a journey to Istanbul. Fired by Richard's passion for the rich history of the dazzling Byzantine Empire - centred around the legendary Constantinople - we are swept into some of the most extraordinary tales in history.The clash of civilizations, the fall of empires, the rise of Christianity, revenge, lust, murder. Turbulent stories from the past are bro
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
Hugh Kennedy · 421 pages
Examines the history of the great Islamic expansion, reveals how the Arab armies were able to overcome almost everything in their path, and brings to light the unique characteristics of Islamic settlement in new lands and the conversion to Islam of vast populations.
In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires
Raymond T. McNally, Radu Florescu · 223 pages
The true story behind the legend of Dracula - a biography of Prince Vlad of Transylvania, better known as Vlad the Impaler. This revised edition now includes entries from Bram Stoker's recently discovered diaries, the amazing tale of Nicolae Ceausescu's attempt to make Vlad a national hero, and an examination of recent adaptations in fiction, stage and screen.
Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
Karen Armstrong · 476 pages
"Jerusalem has been venerated for centuries as a Holy City by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. How this came to be and what it means both to the people of Jerusalem and to millions around the world is now richly told by the author of the best-selling and widely acclaimed A History of God.". "In every major religion, a "holy place" has helped men and women define their own place, indeed their own im
The Marriage Of Likeness: Same-Sex Unions In Pre-modern Europe
John Boswell · 412 pages
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450
David C. Lindberg · 455 pages
A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518
John Waller · 267 pages
The true story of a wild dancing epidemic that brought death and fear to a 16th-century city, and the terrifying supernatural beliefs from which it arose.
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama · 608 pages
Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order.
The Return of Martin Guerre
Natalie Zemon Davis · 162 pages
Recounts the history of French imposter Arnaud du Tilh and his denouncement in court by Martin Guerre, whose identity, property, and wife du Tilh tried to claim. Reveals new information about sixteenth-century peasant life.
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE
Simon Schama · 512 pages
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
Firas Alkhateeb · 217 pages
"Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France, to East Africa to South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists, and theologians, n
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt · 356 pages
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manus
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
Alison Weir · 572 pages
A biography of the first Tudor queen, who was the only living descendent of Yorkist King Edward IV, and mother of the infamous Henry VIII, sheds new light on the life of this enigmatic woman and mother of the Tudor dynasty.