Roger Crowley is the best-selling author of Constantinople: The Last Great Siege (2005), Empire of the Sea (2008), Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades (2019) and most recently, Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World (Yale, 2024).
Roger Crowley
This is the diary of an extraordinary journey by donkey in 1981, carrying the reader across Turkey’s magnificent landscapes and into the houses and lives of its villagers. The closely observed narrative records a traditional way of life on the eve of radical change and is illustrated with photographs, drawings, paintings and poems. READ MORE
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