Lords of the horizons

By Jason Goodwin

Subjects: Turkey, history, ottoman empire, 1288-1918, History

Description: A history of the Ottoman Turks, founders of an empire lasting 600 years and stretching from the Persian Gulf to Hungary, to Algeria. The author describes the harems, the artistic and technological achievements--the cannon was first used by them in the siege of Constantinople--and the religious tolerance to which he attributes the empire's longevity.