Cities That Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich

This book’s title is Cities That Shaped the Ancient World and is edited by John Julius Norwich. This book covers in every part of the world from the near east to the Americas. The author uses descriptions of these cities from various people. It was interesting read, but did nothing to advance my understanding of history.

I read the paperback edition of this book. The review by Peter Gordon is exactly right. The book is a collection of brief city-by-city essays that are very short. As I had said above, it was interesting but did nothing to advance my understand of history.

There is a short review of this book on Good Reads. There is a good review of this book on Asian Review of Books by Peter Gordon. Most of the reviews are the same as they seem all to be coming from bookshops.

Norwich talks on YouTube about Venice. There are no videos on this book.

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