Inspired - Anna Kirk, Telegraph Review Marozzi is a fine advocate for Herodotus - Sunday Herald Marozzi is a seasoned traveller-historian who pursues his scholarly quarry with the tenacity of a beagle.a rattling good read and a superior work of reflective instruction - History Today The most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians - Sunday Telegraph Justin Marozzi is that most precious rarity: a serious traveller who is also a real writer, with a wonderful feel for language, a gift for narrative and an enviable sensitivity and lightness of touch. Brave, romantic, erudite and humane, South from Barbary is a genuinely remarkable debut - William Dalrymple The perfect travel book .observant, shrewd, patient and exceedingly well attuned . It is a measure of Marozzi's skill that he handles the big themes of history and the small irritations of third-millennium camel travel with equal charm and felicity - Financial Times Excellent.a superbly rounded and vivid portrait of one of history's most fascinating personalities - Andrew Roberts, Evening Standard Captivating, a delightful and fortunate conjunction between the world of [Tamerlane] then and that world transformed today - Spectator.