Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“roger crowley”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roger crowley”
Skip side bar filters

  • Conquerors

    How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

    by Roger Crowley ...
    In Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers—a tactical advantage no other country could match. Portugal’s discovery of a sea route to India, campaign of imperial conquest over Muslim rulers, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • City of Fortune

    How Venice Ruled the Seas

    by Roger Crowley ...
    “The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”—The Financial TimesThe New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 1453

    The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

    by Roger Crowley ...
    A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Constantine XI, the 57th emperor of Byzantium, illuminates the period in history that was a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Empires of the Sea

    The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of theWorld

    by Roger Crowley ...
    In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths for control of the Mediterranean and the center of the world.In Empires of the Sea,acclaimed historian Roger Crowley has written his most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spice

    The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World

    by Roger Crowley ...
    The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the PacificSpices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Accursed Tower

    The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades

    by Roger Crowley ...
    **From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian stronghold fell to the Muslim armyThe 1291 siege of Acre was the Alamo of the Christian Crusades -- the final bloody battle for the Holy Land. After a desperate six weeks, the beleaguered citadel surrendered to the Mamluks, bringing an end to Christendom's two-hundred year adventure ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Accursed Tower

    The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land

    by Roger Crowley ...
    The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before the age of gunpowder, which left this once ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Empires of the Sea

    The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

    by Roger Crowley ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    Empires of the Sea tells the story of the fifty-year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean: one of the fiercest and most influential contests in European history. It traces events from the appearance on the world stage of Suleiman the Magnificent—the legendary ruler of the Ottoman Empire—through "the years of devastation" when it seemed possible that Islam might master the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Conquerors

    How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

    by Roger Crowley ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 7 min

    As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions but far more wide-ranging, the dynamic burst of Portuguese voyaging at the start of the sixteenth century is one of the tipping points of world history : the moment that the world went global. Within a short time span a tiny country, whose population did not exceed a million, created a maritime empire that stretched from Brazil to Nagasaki ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    City of Fortune

    How Venice Ruled the Seas

    by Roger Crowley ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 10 min

    The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    1453

    The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

    by Roger Crowley ...
    Narrated by Simon Prebble ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 56 min

    A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Constantine XI, the 57th emperor of Byzantium, illuminates the period in history that was a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Accursed Tower

    The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades

    by Roger Crowley ...
    Narrated by Matt Kugler ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    **From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian stronghold fell to the Muslim armyThe 1291 siege of Acre was the Alamo of the Christian Crusades -- the final bloody battle for the Holy Land. After a desperate six weeks, the beleaguered citadel surrendered to the Mamluks, bringing an end to Christendom's two-hundred year adventure ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook