| A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History Contributor(s): Lewis, Bernard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375758372 ISBN-13: 9780375758379 Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch) OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have traveled to the lands of the Middle East, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. But it was never a one-way journey. In this spirited collection of Western views of the Middle East and Middle Eastern views of the West, Bernard Lewis gives us a rich overview of two thousand years of commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration. We hear from Napoleon, St. Augustine, T. E. Lawrence, Karl Marx and Ibn Khaldun. We peer into Queen Elizabeth's business correspondence, strike oil with Freya Stark and follow the footsteps of Mark Twain and Ibn Battuta, the Marco Polo of the East. This book is a delight, a treasury of stories drawn not only from letters, diaries and histories, but also from unpublished archives and previously untranslated accounts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - Biography & Autobiography | Religious - Religion | Islam - General |
| Dewey: 956 |
| LCCN: 2001037412 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.15" H x 5.2" W x 8.15" (0.91 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have traveled to the lands of the middle east, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. But it was never a one way exchange. From the first Arab embassy to the Vikings to the internet musings of the Taliban, A Middle East Mosaic collects a rich, boisterous literature of cultural exchange. We hear from Washington and Hamilton, Machiavelli, St. Ignatius Loyola, Florence Nightingale and Henry Kissinger. We peer into Queen Elizabeth's business correspondence, strike oil with Freya Stark, and follow the footsteps of Mark Twain, Richard Burton, and Ibn Battutta, the Marco Polo of the east. Karl Marx files a dispatch on the Crimean war and we enter Egypt with Napoleon. Patton, Nasser, Churchill and de Gaulle report from the front in World War II. The fruit of a lifetime of scholarship and erudition, A Middle East Mosaic is a dazzling capstone to a brilliant career. In a spirited reappraisal of western views of the east and eastern views of the west, Bernard Lewis gives us a brilliant over-view of 2,000 years of commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration. This book is a delight, a treasury of stories drawn from letters, diaries and histories, but also from unpublished archives and previously untranslated accounts. Diplomats, slaves, soldiers, pilgrims and missionaries, princes and spies, businessmen, arms dealers, doctors and priests all pour forth their stories of the people and events that shaped history. |