The Cartoon History of the Universe III - From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance (Paperback, 1st ed)

An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature. Praised by Jonathan Spence in the New York Times Book Review as "a curious hybrid, at once flippant and scholarly, witty and politically correct, zany and traditionalist," Gonick's clever illustrations deliver important information with a deceptively light tone, teaching us about the people and events that have shaped our world.

This long-awaited new volume covers the Middle Ages around the globe, including the multicultural Middle East, West Africa and the cross-Saharan trade, Central Asia and the Byzantine Empire, the European Dark Ages and the Crusades, the Mongol conquests, the Black Death, the Ottoman Empire, the Italian Renaissance, and the rise of Spain, leading up to Columbus's departure for the new world. Gonick offers an historical survey that is at once multicultural, humanistic, skeptical, and laugh-out-loud funny.

"An amazing example of the results of over-ambition: a masterpiece! A must for every animated reader."—Steve Martin, actor and writer

"Insidiously disguised as cartoon books, Larry Gonick's well researched and hilariously illustrated graphic texts should be in every library."—Lynn Johnston, cartoonist of For Better or For Worse

"The use of comic art to tell serious history is a brilliant application of the medium....Bravo, Larry!"—Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, A Contract with God, and The Dreamer

"Informative, funny, and a triumph of the cartoonist's craft—in other words, cause for celebration."—Charles Johnson, author of Middle Passage

"Larry Gonick makes social evolution both graspable in its complexity and funny in its humanity."—Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2003
First published:	October 2002
Authors:	Larry Gonick
Dimensions:	265 x 194 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	311
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-32403-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-393-32403-6
Barcode:	9780393324037

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