1928. Illustrated. Lamb was a writer for Adventure magazines and an excellent historical novelist, being considered an expert on the periods he wrote about. Tamerlane is a Westernization of the Persian tale of Tamer Lenk. When the baby was first born, his parents took him to a holy sheik to be blessed. As they arrived, the sheik was reading a section of the Koran with that word, and instantly upon seeing him declared that his name would be Tamuru. During his lifetime, he conquered more territory than anyone except Alexander. His rule extended from his home base in Samarkand, southern Russia down through Iran and Syria in the west and into Northern Indian the south, and eastward into the westernmost parts of China. Although at times a brutal conqueror, he was also a man of compassion and great intelligence. He spoke several languages and was a patron of art, poetry and music. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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This is an excellant story of Amir Timur Barlas, the man who almost conquered as much land as the great Genghis Khan. Harold Lamb is a master story teller, and this book contains not only the story of Tamerlane, which is a slur on Timur-the-lame, for he walked with a limp due to an old wound, but the book also tells of the history of Central Asia, and is filled with a list of great and useful resourses. This book started me on a quest to write my own story on Tamerlane which is based on Petis de la Croix's version of Sherif ad-Dins work:"The History of Timur-Bek..." which I call: "The Campaigns of Tamerlane." It is the second book of Harold Lambs collection that I treasure. I also have an autograph copy.
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