SENTENCED TO DEATH EVEN BEFORE HE WAS BORN; CYRUS ROSE FROM IGNOMINY TO SEIZE THE THRONE WHICH WAS HIS BIRTHRIGHT, TO BECOME THE KING OF THE MIGHTIEST EMPIRE THE WORLD HAD EVER SEEN. IN HIS QUEST HE IS AIDED THE PRINCES OF THE SIX TRIBES OF MEDIA, AND BY HARPAGUS, ONCE ASTYAGES’ OWN GENERAL; WHO HAD HIS OWN REASON TO TURN AGAINST THE TYRANT ASTYAGES. CYRUS IS AN EXCITING STORY OF INTRIGUE AND CONQUEST, OF TREACHERY AND BETRAYAL; OF LOYALTY AND HEROISM; OF ORACLES, OMENS AND PROPHECIES; AND...

From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues whi...