"...the Ottoman Empire outlived all the other Turkic empires, the empires of the steppe that so fascinated Western travelers, from the precursors of Marco Polo to those ladies immortalized in Lesley Blanch's 'Wilder Shore of Love' (1954), a classic, more antiseptic than its title. Among the many, and sometimes extremely good, English-language memoirs and works of history, Patrick Kinross's magnificently deserves its place."--Introduction Read more
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