![]() The pages that follow are inadequate indeed but they have been written with deep gratitude, and with love. ![]() ![]() Sad as the island may be, it has given me great happiness, and has provided the beginning – and, quite possibly, the end – of my literary career. Today is my eighty-fifth birthday, and it may well be that I shall never return to Sicily. And now, in Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History, he's returned to the place that's meant so much to him both personally and professionally – and the tone of his Preface is strikingly sad: There followed dozens of other books, including very well-regarded histories of Venice and Byzantium. Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of Historyby John Julius NorwichRandom House, 2015Back in the 1960s, when renowned and best-selling historian John Julius Norwich was just starting out on his literary career, he visited Sicily for the first time and ended up writing a book about the Norman conquest of the island in the 12 th century. ![]()
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