KİTABIN ADI
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Son Haçlılar (Holly War-Last Crusade)
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KİTABIN YAZARI
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Nigel
Cliff
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KİTABIN ÇEVİRMENİ
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Deniz Güzelgülgen
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KİTABIN YAYINEVİ
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Remzi Kitabevi
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KİTABIN BASKI YILI
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2013
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KİTABIN BASKI SAYISI
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1.Baskı
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KİTABIN SAYFA SAYISI
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388 syf
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KİTABIN DİZGİ/BASKI
KALİTESİ
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10/10
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KİTABIN YAZIM-DİL
KALİTESİ
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10/10
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KİTABIN
EDEBİ/SANATSAL/TARİHSEL DEĞERİ
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10/10
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Okul yıllarında tarih ve coğrafya en sevdiğim derslerdendi. İnsanlığın bilinen geçmişten bugüne yaşadıkları, uygarlıkları ve savaşlarının anlatıldığı tarihin yanında dünyanın dört bir köşesinden bilgilerin, okyanusların, kıtaların ve sayısız devletin ve kültürün yayıldığı muhteşem bölgeler insanın hayalini zenginleştirirdi. Ama, ortaçağı yaşayan Avrupa halklarının, Osmanlının İstanbul’u almasından etkilenerek rönesansa girmesinin arkasından Amerika’nın ve birçok deniz yollarının keşfi gibi aniden keşifler çağına girmesinin mantığını ise o yaşta kuramıyordum. Zamanla okudukça, aslında tarih ile coğrafyanın iç içe olduğunu, pek çok zorunluluğun aslında keşifleri getirdiği öğrendim. Okudukça keyif aldım. İşte bu kitapta da, keşiflerin nasıl başladığı, kendi halinde basit bir devlet olan Portekiz’in nasıl bir anda dünya denizlerine açıldığını, Hindistan’a giden deniz yolunun nasıl bulunduğunun çok çarpıcı öyküsel anlatımı yer alıyor. Yazar, aslında tarihi anlattığı kitabında, coğrafi keşiflerin solu kesici bir romanını yazmış. Elinizden bırakamayacağınız derece güzel ve iyi yazılmış olmasının yanında oldukça detaylı bilgiler ediniyorsunuz. Son yıllarda okuduğum en güzel kitaplardan birisi. |
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Nigel
Cliff was born in Manchester, England in 1969. He won scholarships to
Winchester College and Oxford University, where despite directing and
producing several plays he was awarded a First Class degree in English and
the prestigious Beddington Prize for English Literature. On graduating he was
hired as a theatre critic onThe
Times, and he was
subsequently a film critic for the paper as well as an interviewer and
feature writer. He left to become a contributor toThe Economist, where he wrote on British current
affairs as well as books and films. He also wrote introductions to the
Collector’s Library/Barnes & Noble editions of Mansfield Park, The Age of
Innocence and Moby
Dick.
His first book, The Shakespeare Riots (Random House, 2007), told
the stranger-than-life tale of a scandalous feud between the first American
star and the leading British actor of the mid-nineteeth century, which
escalated into a riot on the streets of New York that left as many as 30
dead. The story of the birth struggles of the American entertainment
industry, it also reveals the extraordinary influence Shakespeare had on the
character of America. He moved to New York to research the book and spent a
year searching out contemporary newspapers and unpublished diaries, letters,
and theatrical ephemera. Praised as “a brilliant debut” by the London
Review of Books and
as “brilliantly engrossing” by the LA Times, it was a finalist
for the US National Award for Arts Writing and was chosen by the Washington
Post as one of the
best nonfiction books of the year.
The Last Crusade, his second book, is published
by HarperCollins in the US and Atlantic in the UK. A historical epic
stretching across two millennia, it identifies the voyages of Vasco da Gama
to India as the turning point in the long struggle for supremacy between
Christianity and Islam, East and West. His research in Vasco da Gama’s
footsteps took him across three continents, from Rome, Morocco and Lisbon to
Tanzania, Mozambique, Kenya and India.
He is currently writing the screenplay for the film of The
Shakespeare Riots, which is being produced by Muse Productions,
as well as a new translation and edition of Marco Polo’s Travels for Penguin Classics. He continues
to contribute to a range of publications including The
New York Times.
He lives in London with his wife, the ballerina Viviana Durante, and their son Orlando. In
his spare time he travels, cooks for both baby and grown-ups, and produces
ballets.
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