by Jason Goodwin · Holt Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780805063424
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«Lords of the Horizons» is the historical essay by Jason Goodwin, published by Holt Paperbacks in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Jason Goodwin reconstructs six centuries of the Ottoman Empire, from 14th-century Anatolia, after the Byzantine collapse, to its dissolution after the First World War. With anecdotes and memoirs of European travellers, he explains how the empire stretched from the Danube to the Nile and why its legacy still weighs on the Balkans.
The book was first published in 1998; this edition is from April 2000.
Recommended for those who want to get started in Ottoman history with an accessible narrative full of anecdotes, and for those interested in the past of the Balkans.
Jason Goodwin is an English writer and historian.
