EMPIRES OF THE SEA: THE SIEGE OF MALTA, THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO, AND THE CONTEST FOR THE CENTER OF THE WORLD

Book ID/图书代码： 00530008B23608

English Summary/英文概要： 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 mesmerizing work to date–a thrilling account of this brutal decades-long battle between Christendom and Islam for the soul of Europe, a fast-paced tale of spiraling intensity that ranges from Istanbul to the Gates of Gibraltar and features a cast of extraordinary characters: Barbarossa, “The King of Evil,” the pirate who terrified Europe; the risk-taking Emperor Charles V; the Knights of St. John, the last crusading order after the passing of the Templars; the messianic Pope Pius V; and the brilliant Christian admiral Don Juan of Austria.
This struggle’s brutal climax came between 1565 and 1571, seven years that witnessed a fight to the finish decided in a series of bloody set pieces: the epic siege of Malta, in which a tiny band of Christian defenders defied the might of the Ottoman army; the savage battle for Cyprus; and the apocalyptic last-ditch defense of southern Europe at Lepanto–one of the single most shocking days in world history. At the close of this cataclysmic naval encounter, the carnage was so great that the victors could barely sail away “because of the countless corpses floating in the sea.” Lepanto fixed the frontiers of the Mediterranean world that we know today.
Roger Crowley conjures up a wild cast of pirates, crusaders, and religious warriors struggling for supremacy and survival in a tale of slavery and galley warfare, desperate bravery and utter brutality, technology and Inca gold. Empires of the Sea is page-turning narrative history at its best–a story of extraordinary color and incident, rich in detail, full of surprises, and backed by a wealth of eyewitness accounts. It provides a crucial context for our own clash of civilizations.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1521年，苏莱曼一世发动了针对罗得岛的入侵，由此开启了地中海信仰和世界中心的争夺之战。
作者通过迷人的描绘、丰富的细节、出人意料的情节以及大量的史实，将这场历时数十载的战役还原得活灵活现，给人以血脉喷张的感官体验。它是我们文明进步的关键所在。全书由巴尔巴罗萨、邪恶之王、令欧洲闻风丧胆的海盗、冒险王查尔斯五世、骑士圣约翰等章节构成。
这场交战的高潮出现在1565-1571七年间，即世界历史上的马耳他围攻、塞浦路斯恶战以及欧洲南部保卫战。及至海上交战大屠杀以后，尸横遍海，连胜利者也无法驶离。(兼职翻译-XJJ)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Roger Crowley1951年出生，曾受教于劍橋大學。作為一名海軍家庭的孩子，早期在馬耳的生活經歷促使他對歷史和地中海世界文化產生了濃厚興趣。學校放假後，他在希臘悠閒地渡過了自己的暑假；大學畢業後他花了一年的時間深入研究地中海歷史文化，不在伊斯坦布爾教授英語的閒置時間，他會去探索城市和步行穿越土耳其西部大部分地區。近年來他環遊旅行希臘世界，包括兩次造訪拜占庭傳統的精神家園，希臘聖山阿陀斯山。所有這一切促使他完成了第一本完整美觀的歷史書籍，《Constantinople: The Last Great Siege/1453，君士坦丁堡：最後一次的大圍攻/1453》（2005年）。他的第二本書，《Empires of the Sea/帝國的海域（2008年），是這段戲劇性歷史的延續：十六世紀，偉大的奧斯曼帝國和奧地利的哈普斯堡王朝為控制地中海地球而展開的爭奪。這部書被2009年度英國《星期日泰晤士報》評為年度歷史圖書大獎，並成為《紐約時報》的暢銷書。《City of Fortune》自由輕鬆地完成了關於地中海地區歷史的三部曲。
Roger Crowley was born in 1951 and educated at Cambridge University. As the child of a naval family, early experiences of life in Malta gave him a deep interest in the history and culture of the Mediterranean world. After finishing school he spent his summers pottering in Greece; after university the Mediterranean took a deeper hold with a year spent on and off teaching English in Istanbul, exploring the city and walking across much of Western Turkey. In recent years he has made return trips to the Greek-speaking world, including two visits to Mount Athos, spiritual home of the Byzantine tradition. All this resulted in his well-reviewed first book, Constantinople: The Last Great Siege/1453 (2005). His second book, Empires of the Sea (2008), was the continuation of this dramatic passage of history: the great sixteenth-century contest between the Ottomans and Hapsburgs for control of the Mediterranean. It was the Sunday Times (UK) History Book of the Year in 2009 and a New York Times Bestseller. City of Fortune completes a loose trilogy of books about the history of the Mediterranean.

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