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Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World

by Colin Wells

Format:  CD Audiobook
Published:  August 2006
Category:  Medieval
Publisher:  Tantor Media Inc
Narrator:  Sean Pratt

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RunTime: 9 hrs, 8 CDs. A gripping intellectual adventure story, 'Sailing from Byzantium' sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege....The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs, and the Slavs.Fast-paced, compulsively readable, and filled with fascinating insights, 'Sailing from Byzantium' is one of the great historical dramas-the gripping story of how the flame of civilization was saved and passed on.

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