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A MIDDLE EAST MOSAIC: Fragments of Life, Letters, and History
by Lewis, Bernard
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679451919
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451914
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House Inc., 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This symphony of voices, full of wit and wisdom, spite and wonder, suspicion, befuddlement and occasional insight, is ordered and explained by our foremost living historian of the middle east. 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 over the last two thousand years, 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 This book is a delight, a treasury of stories drawn from letters, diaries and histories, but also from unpublished archives and previously untranslated accounts.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 and interpreters, slaves, soldiers, pilgrims and missionaries, princes and spies, businessmen, doctors and priests all pour forth their stories of the people and events that shaped history. A MIDDLE EAST MOSAI cannot fail to appeal to anyone with an appetite for history and a curiosity about the vagaries of cultural exchange. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped][Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NF40
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019518
- Title
- A MIDDLE EAST MOSAIC: Fragments of Life, Letters, and History
- Author
- Lewis, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679451919
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451914
- Publisher
- Random House Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 469
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Product_type
- 2
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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