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Cover art: The Siege of Chioggia, Alessandro Grevenbroeck.
Blurb: “The gripping story of how Venice carved out its empire in the eastern Mediterranean and how the Ottomans seized it piece by piece?
Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year Drawing on first hand accounts of crusaders, sea captains and merchants, as well as the state records, renowned historian Roger Crowley's City of Fortune is a rich narrative about commerce and empire, seafaring and piracy, which ranges across the Mediterranean from the Adriatic to Alexandria, from Crete to Constantinople and the Black Sea.”