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Colin Wells.
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World.
Published New York: Delacorte Press, 2nd impression (previously issued 2006).
ISBN 0553803816;
ISBN-13: 9780553803815.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 145x217x24mm.
Page count: xxx,336pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition very good: this is an ex-display copy so shows evidence of handling, dustjacket a little scuffed, but otherwise unused.

This item £12.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback $17.00]
Weight without packaging: 532g.

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Contents: Toward a parting of the ways; Between Athens & Jerusalem; How Petrarch & Boccaccio flunked Greek; Chrysoloras in Florence; Byzantine émigrés in the Quattrocento; A new Byzantium; House of wisdom; Arabic enlightenment; Threat from the north; Mission of Cyril & Methodius; Wars of emulation; Serbs & others; Rise of Kiev; Golden age of Kievan Rus; Rise of Moscow; The 3rd Rome; Epilogue — the last Byzantine.

Notes: at foot of page & end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: 9
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: notes on major characters
Bibliography: 18pp
Index: yes

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