Recommendations from our site
“It’s an incredibly ambitious book with a huge range. It presents this world in its full complexity. It’s an incredibly compelling read and it changes the way you see the world.” Read more...
Paul Lay, Historian
Our most recommended books
-
The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Zemon Davis -
Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
by Timothy Brook -
The Forever War
by Dexter Filkins -
The Gypsy Menace
by Michael Stewart (editor) -
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes
by Susan Whitfield -
Origins: How The Earth Made Us
by Lewis Dartnell