An authoritative and entertaining account of the earliest ambassadors, who were at once diplomats, explorers and chroniclers of exotic civilisations. / A fascinating history packed with anecdotes of courageous and adventurous men and women who endured the rigours of foreign service from ancient times to the 1700s. / Jonathan Wright is young with an already formidable reputation as a historian. / No other book of its kind exists, and the exotic subject is potentially highly publicisable.
Jonathan Wright, the author of The Jesuits, was educated at Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania.
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