- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown; First Edition edition (30 April 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316861243
- ISBN-13: 978-0316861243
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 363,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Remarkable - Barnaby Rogerson has succeeded in isolating all the different strands of North Africa and weaving them into a clear and comprehensive narrative' - John Julius Norwich on A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF NORTH AFRICA.
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* Timely history of the battle for the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th centuries between the forces of Islam and Christendom.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I just finished The Last Crusaders, which I picked up at Daunt the other day, and felt I had to tell someone how much I enjoyed it. Not just because it is so well written or because it is such a good read, the story so compelling: it is all the above, but a lot more.
My previous employer, Shell, used to evaluate its employees according to their score on 3 criteria: imagination, realism, and helicopter. No need to explain the first 2, or maybe even the 3rd, but what they had in mind was the ability to get up above the facts and small vignettes and see how things fit together in the overall puzzle of meaning. That's what this book did so superbly and apparently effortlessly, despite the need to bring together sources from Islamic and European sources spanning two centuries and more than two continents. Not that the detailed side was wanting, however: I loved the attention to things nautical, I guess blood will tell (the author's father was a Royal Navy officer whose career took his family to strategic points in the Med and elsewhere). So now I know what it felt (and smelt) like to be a galley-slave, knitting in between campaigns.
The combination of vividly described detail, fast-moving narrative that doesn't miss a significant move in what was the Great Game of the 16th century, makes for a unique read that will certainly become a reference on my shelf.
My previous employer, Shell, used to evaluate its employees according to their score on 3 criteria: imagination, realism, and helicopter. No need to explain the first 2, or maybe even the 3rd, but what they had in mind was the ability to get up above the facts and small vignettes and see how things fit together in the overall puzzle of meaning. That's what this book did so superbly and apparently effortlessly, despite the need to bring together sources from Islamic and European sources spanning two centuries and more than two continents. Not that the detailed side was wanting, however: I loved the attention to things nautical, I guess blood will tell (the author's father was a Royal Navy officer whose career took his family to strategic points in the Med and elsewhere). So now I know what it felt (and smelt) like to be a galley-slave, knitting in between campaigns.
The combination of vividly described detail, fast-moving narrative that doesn't miss a significant move in what was the Great Game of the 16th century, makes for a unique read that will certainly become a reference on my shelf.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"The Last Crusaders" by Barnaby Rogerson that I read in one stretch is a still rare example of a very learned historical account based on thorough and wide-ranged research told in a vivid style pleasing also the non-expert educated reader. It is a masterpiece only to be compared with few other bestselling history books like Ceram's (German) "Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte" about archaeological history. I thoroughly enjoyed it, particularly the sections I am less familiar with (Portuguese-Spanish Iberian squabbles in Africa and the Maghrib). "The Last Crusaders" - read with an eye open for the present - is a study of politics and psychology as well as history. Deserves a prize and to be a bestseller.
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