Giles Milton
Autor de El Hombre que tuvo el coraje de cambiar la historia
Sobre El Autor
Giles Milton is the author, most recently, of the critically acclaimed Nathaniel's Nutmeg (FSG, 1999). He lives in London. (Bowker Author Biography)
Obras de Giles Milton
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America (2000) 784 copias
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat (2016) 550 copias
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves (2004) 493 copias
The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller (1996) 472 copias
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day (2018) 146 copias
When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank: History's Unknown Chapters (2015) 45 copias
Vom Mann, der mit zwei Flaschen Whiskey den Untergang der Titanic überlebte: In kuriosen Anekdoten durch die… (2020) 3 copias
Pulau Run 2 copias
2009 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Milton, Giles
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1966-01-15
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Burgundy, France
London, England, UK - Educación
- University of Bristol
- Ocupaciones
- non-fiction writer
journalist - Relaciones
- Milton, Alexandra (spouse)
- Premios y honores
- Fellow, Royal Historical Society
- Agente
- Georgia Garrett (Rogers, Collier & White)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 31
- Miembros
- 6,214
- Popularidad
- #3,946
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 147
- ISBNs
- 234
- Idiomas
- 14
- Favorito
- 7
like mandeville miltom devides his book into threo parts, in the first tracing the path of a sensationalist account of a likely true pilgrimage to Jerusalem, passing Istanbul, then Egypt, then through Sinai to the Holy City. milton has assemble d enough evidence that this was a strong possibility. The interview with the Mamluk sultan of Egypt ptovides Sir John with a cover for a serious attack on the faults of the catholic church of the day, then in the Throes of the great schism. there is also a startlingly neutral and factual account of the sate of islamic faith at that time, reasonably accurate, and not couched in demonic terms.
the second part is a widly fictitious but does provide a platform for the critique of catholicism by contrasting it with the largely fictitious religions of the strange monsters at the edges of the map.
the third part is a collection of eviddence for Mandeville's contention that the Earth is a sphere and capable of circumnavigation given the right technology. Then there is a look at Mandeville's influence on later explorers and a quote from the recorder of Columbus' expeditions openly syayig the large faith the Genoese had placed on parts of Mandeville's book.… (más)