Ambassadors by Wright, Jonathan - 2006-06-05

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Used - Very Good. 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. (Subject: Medieval & Renaissance).

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Used - Like New. 2006. Hardcover. Fine.

Hardback. Very Good.

HarperCollins, 2006. 0007173431. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (top edge dust stained - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. ix + 336, with b&w plates. [Unused publisher's review copy.].

HarperPress. J48 2006, paperback, fine copy / mooi exemplaar

London, HarperCollinsPublishers. 2006. Original publisher's brown paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: xiv, 336pp., illustrations, acknowledgements, credits pictures, notes & references, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new.,

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harperpress. First edition-first printing. Hardcover. New/New. Mint condition.HarperPress,2006.First edition-first printing.Tan hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in mint condition.Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings.340pp including Notes,select bibliography,index.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: This is an authoritative and entertaining account of the earliest ambassadors, who were at once diplomats, explorers and chroniclers of exotic civilisations. In this book of extraordinary journeys and epochal encounters, Jonathan Wright traces the ambassadors' story from Ancient Greece and Ashoka's empire in India to the European Enlightenment and the birth of the nation state. He shows us Byzantine envoys dining with Attila the Hun, thirteenth-century monks journeying from Flanders to the Asian steppe, and Tudor ambassadors grappling with the chaos of Reformation. He examines the… Read More