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This collection On Travel is clever, funny, provoking and confrontational by turn. In a pyrotechnic display of cracking one- liners, cynical word play and comic observation, it mines three thousand years of wit and wisdom: from Martha Gellhorn to Confucius and from Pliny to Paul Theroux.

The Prophet Muhammad was the founder of a world empire and a new civilisation - this is his story.

Rogerson family history.

A combination of accounts by famous travelers from Rebecca West to Laurence Durrell and Firzroy Maclean, this collection brings together for the first time, stories from the war, crusader knights, and hauntingly macabre traditional tales.

Bruce Wannell was a true original, remembered here with affection, humour and wonder by fifty writers including such friends as Kevin Rushby, Lisa Chaney, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Tahir Shah and William Dalrymple.

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Islam's Sunni-Shia Conflict. Rogerson's timely book begins with the contemporary Middle East and the proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies and Shiite Iran. To understand these, he suggests, we must understand the origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, the accidental coup that set aside the claims of Ali, and the slaughter of Ali's son Husayn at Kerbala. These events, known to...

The author, critic and broadcaster Barnaby Rogerson looks at six people who between the fact and the powerful myth shaped North Africa. Praised by the "Astene Bulletin" as 'an example of dazzling erudition worn lightly'.

Beautifully told, this biography is an epic tale of tale of battles, love, jealousy, persecution and betrayal.

For four decades, Rogerson has travelled extensively across North Africa, in an attempt to understand its complex and fascinating history. Here, he records his journey into the ruins of a landscape through the lives of five men and one woman.

* Timely history of the battle for the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th centuries by the forces of Islam and Christendom, out now in paperback

A guide to the history and culture of the region from its earliest beginnings to its politics and life at the turn of the century.

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A wonderfully vivid history of Islam after Muhammad's death - and the sequel to Rogerson's acclaimed THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD

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A collection of poems which is suitable for constructing a sensual Orient of the imagination, from the seven golden odes of Pre-Islamic Arabia to the fevered visions of Coleridge.

Learn how to barter and where to get the best bargains! Bursting with personal knowledge and practical information from a renowned expert on Morocco, this guidebook reveals the secrets of these three unique imperial cities and delivers complete insights into their history, religion, culture, and architecture. Full-color photos. Maps.

This is the first book in a new series of pocket-sized poetry books for travelers and poetry lovers who seek inspiration while on a bus, subway train, or taxi, or while waiting for a museum to open. Here is the poetry of London, from the up-beat rap-poetry of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth's dawn sigh. From the catchpenny verses of Oranges and Lemons and London Bridge is Falling Down, to the ecstatic visions of Keats, Milton, and Blake. From...

In this fascinating and insightful biography, Barnaby Rogerson explores the life and times of Muhammad. Vividly describing the sixth-century Arabia where Muhammad was born, Rogerson charts his early years among the flocks, the caravans and the markets of his native Mecca, the night he received his religious vision, the perilous years of reciting the revelations in Mecca, his escape to Yathrib (Medina) and his subsequent battles. In his lifetim...