
Lords of the Horizons
A History of the Ottoman Empire
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Narrated by:
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Grahame Edwards
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By:
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Jason Goodwin
The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over 600 years the empire swelled and declined, rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted and total.
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Excellent Story - Poor Reading
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Beautifully written
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As I'm very interested in the subject, I soldiered on and got through the end, the narrator got better, but never really good. If you can stand the defective narration there is a very interesting book here, as the history of the Ottoman Empire is both fascinating and crucial as we are talking about one of the biggest empires in the world from the 15th century onwards. Its an epic story which encompasses the history of Europe in the fateful clashes of the Turks with the West, and the history of the Ottomans is crucial to understand the modern world today from the Balkans to the Middle East to the North of Africa to Russia and World War I.
The book is well written and stylish. However, it is also somewhat haphazard in its structure. The writer is not a professional historian but a fiction writer, so sometimes the writing is a little more impressionistic. Also the book is chronological, but the writer chooses his chapter by subject or by theme, and then in the same chapter he flashes back and forward through time so the order of events is not always clear, and sometimes the book is more poetic than thorough. To go deeper this book in audio form should need to be at least 20 hours as the history of the Ottoman encompasses so many centuries and territories. Sample the audio before buying to see if you can tolerate the narrator, and if you do you will have a decent, but not definitive history of the Ottoman Empire.
Good introduction to the Ottomans, bad narration
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I Wish I Could Say I Liked This More Than I Did...
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Incredible
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Occasional mispronunciation but otherwise a satisfying performance by the voice actor.
Great summary but no chronological narrative
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Brilliant history, unfortunate choice of narrator.
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Bad performance of a meandering book
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As for the narration of Grahame Edwards, I wish there was a reader who actually can do a descent job in pronouncing the Turkish words better. Not a single person-name, place name or any word of Turkish being pronounced correctly. It makes it even more confusing when the esteemed reader pronounces the same word differently in different parts of the book, that makes it ridiculous. Overall, I would not recommend this book either for reading or listening. There are much superior books on the subject/
Mediocre history and terrible reading!
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A bunch of episodes
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