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City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
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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. In Venice, the path to empire unfolded in a series of extraordinary contests - the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, the fight to the finish with Genoa and a desperate defence against the Turks. Under the lion banner of St Mark, she created an empire of ports and naval bases which funnelled the goods of the world through its wharfs. In the process the city became the richest place on earth - a brilliant mosaic fashioned from what it bought, traded, borrowed and stole. Based on first hand accounts of trade and warfare, seafaring and piracy and the places where Venetians sailed and died, "City of Fortune" is narrative history at its finest. Beginning on Ascension Day in the year 1000 and ending with an explosion off the coast of Greece - and the calamitous news that the Portuguese had pioneered a sea route to India - it will fascinate anyone who loves Venice and the Mediterranean world.
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Roger Crowley read English at Cambridge before going to live in Istanbul. His first book, Constantinople was published in 2005 and was followed by Empires of the Sea, which was chosen as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year in 2008.
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Well researched and written popular history at its best!!
11. Januar 2012
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City of Fortune is a masterful account of the salient episodes in Venetian history from 1000 - 1669 AD. From the subjugation of pirates off today's Croatian coast, the gutting of the Byzantine Empire by the fourth crusade, the perilous war of Chioggia that represented the nadir of Venice's struggle against its stubborn foe the Genoese; to the inexorable lava flow of Turkish expansion that coalesced round the shores of Greece, Roger Crowley's gift for an unfussy, sure footed narrative makes this account a continuous treat. "How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire" does not give us the excruciating introverted detail of Norwich's classic, but instead looks outward across the maritime reach of Venice's shipping lanes and ports in the manner of Jan Morris's, The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage. Mr. Crowley continues depicting battle scenes with clarity and realism while drawing on a range of original eye witness accounts that pepper this lively narrative with a contemporary taste. We also get a real sense of the interconnecting rhythms of trade from the outpost of Tana in the Crimea, to Constantinople, Alexandria and on into the heart of Venice's trade carousel, the Rialto markets - and are given an impression of the Arsenal as an innovative template for the production line of ships.
How Venice won and lost a naval empire is for the reader to find out so I shall finish by just mentioning that City of Fortune is also a fine example of how a publisher can complement and enhance a writer's work. Interspersed with fabulous illustrations at just the right points in the text and with maps and coloured plates, this is popular history at its best - while Roger Crowley is a worthy successor to Ernle Bradford - let's hope a whole new younger generation of readers will benefit from the telling.
How Venice won and lost a naval empire is for the reader to find out so I shall finish by just mentioning that City of Fortune is also a fine example of how a publisher can complement and enhance a writer's work. Interspersed with fabulous illustrations at just the right points in the text and with maps and coloured plates, this is popular history at its best - while Roger Crowley is a worthy successor to Ernle Bradford - let's hope a whole new younger generation of readers will benefit from the telling.
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