They are: “Constaninople: The Last Great Siege” (for which he drew on his interest in Istanbul), “Empires of the Sea”, and “City of Fortune”. As a result of this, he has penned a loose trilogy of books about the Mediterranean’s history. Roger’s particular interests are in the Venetian, Ottoman, Portuguese, and Byzantine empires. The child of a naval family, his early experiences of life in Malta gave him a deep interest in the culture and history of the Mediterranean world, which has stayed a major subject of his work.
He was educated at Sherborne School before reading English at Emmanuel College Cambridge. Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and unleashed the forces of globalisation.Roger Crowley was born in the year 1951, and is a British author and historian that is known for his books on Mediterranean and maritime history. Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is narrative history at its most vivid - an epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, courage and terrifying brutality.
In an astonishing blitz of thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world trade. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten.
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