![]() ![]() Roger’s works have been translated into over twenty languages. He has a reputation for penning page-turning narrative history that is based on eyewitness accounts and original sources combined with careful scholarship. He is married and lives in the Gloucestershire countryside, located in England. Roger worked for many years in the publishing world before he pursued a full-time writing career. ![]() He has also traveled from Portugal and Spain to the Black Sea. He has taught English in Istanbul, walked across Western Turkey, and traveled widely in the Greek-speaking world. They are: “Constaninople: The Last Great Siege” (for which he drew on his interest in Istanbul), “Empires of the Sea”, and “City of Fortune”. As a result of this, he has penned a loose trilogy of books about the Mediterranean’s history. Roger’s particular interests are in the Venetian, Ottoman, Portuguese, and Byzantine empires. The child of a naval family, his early experiences of life in Malta gave him a deep interest in the culture and history of the Mediterranean world, which has stayed a major subject of his work. He was educated at Sherborne School before reading English at Emmanuel College Cambridge. Roger Crowley was born in the year 1951, and is a British author and historian that is known for his books on Mediterranean and maritime history. ![]()
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