Name: Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
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Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

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Weight	0.335 kg
Dimensions	3.1 × 13.1 × 19.8 cm
by	Philip Mansel
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	480
Publisher	John Murray Press
Year Published	2011-9-29
Imprint	John Murray
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	0719567084
About The Author	Philip Mansel is a historian of France and the Ottoman Empire. He has written histories of Constantinople and nineteenth-century Paris, as well as biographies of Louis XVIII and the Prince de Ligne. Six of his books have been translated into French. He writes for the Art Newspaper, the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator. While writing Levant, he lived in Beirut and Istanbul. In 2012 Philip Mansel was awarded the prestigious London Library Life in Literature Award in recognition of the quality of both his writing and his scholarship.
	'Fascinating . . . the strengths of the book are colossal. Philip Mansel's knowledge of the history and culture of these places is encyclopaedic; he has walked their streets, met the scions of their famous families and penetrated their private archives. His eye for detail is sharp; telling anecdotes are culled from memoirs of all kinds, and the sights and smells of each city are vividly conjured up . . . To anyone who has read Mansel's Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, it will be sufficient to say: read this one too. To anyone who has not, I can only say: read both of them'
Other text	The first English-language history of the Levant in the modern age