Cartoon Hist Universe V3(14 - 19)Pa

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.

Larry Gonick, Winner of the 1999 Inkpot Award for Excellence in Cartooning, is a Professional Cartoonist and Author of the Cartoon History of the Universe Series, among other Illustrated Books. He Graduated from Harvard College with a Summa Cum Laude Degree in Mathematics and Phi Beta Kappa Honors. After Earning a Master's Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University, He Left Academia to Pursue Nonfiction Cartooning Full Time. Gonick Received Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994 and 1995. He was also a 2000 Journalism Fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. The Cartoon History of the Universe Series was Named Among the Top 100 Comic Books of the Twentieth Century by the Authoritative Fan Magazine the Comics Journal, Published by Fantagraphics Books of Seattle. The Series's CD-ROM Received the Eddie (Macuser Editor's Choice) Award as Best "Edutainment" Product of 1994.