{"product_id":"saladin-9780552170840","title":"Saladin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia. After reading German and French at Oxford he did two postgraduate courses, one in the history of science at Oxford, the other in Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn has written acclaimed and highly successful biographies of Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and Kublai Khan as well as Alpha Beta, on the history of the alphabet, and The Gutenberg Revolution, on the invention of printing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFast-paced ... thrilling. -- Ben Wilson * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eOne could not wish for a better storyteller or analyst than John Man. * Simon Sebag Montefiore *\u003cbr\u003eHis ability to put us in the picture, to feel, smell and almost touch the surroundings he describes, is matched by his ability to tell a good story. * Michael Palin *","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735129370967,"sku":"9780552170840","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780552170840.jpg?v=1723810038","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/saladin-9780552170840","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}