A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History

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A rich overview of two millennia of commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration. A delightfull treasury fo stroies drawn from letters, diaries and histories. With commentary, notes and reading group guide

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"A magnificent collection that lays out the history of the Middle East like no other book before it. The sheer wonder of this book cannot be overstated."
--Denver Rocky Mountain News

"History in the hands of a master historian is an exquisite thing."
--The Charlotte Observer

Author Bio

Bernard Lewis is the author of The Middle East, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; The Emergence of Modern Turkey; and The Arabs in History, among other landmark books. Inter-nationally recognized as one of the twentieth century's greatest historians of the Middle East, he is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.