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If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople.

By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sani...

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DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople.

By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sani...

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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9781846142826
  • Publication Date: 3 Mar 2011
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM