Michael Wood: Bibliography
‘The Story of India’
"Accompanying the current BBC series, this book explores the colourful history and exciting future of India, increasingly under international scrutiny as it emerges as a global giant. Historian and broadcaster Wood creates a marvellously vivid portrait of India's 10,000-year-old cultural and religious history, without losing sight of the country's rapidly changing present. Gorgeously illustrated and intelligently written, this is both an erudite and entertaining history of one of the world's most fascinating places. There is often something cynical and sketchy about books that accompany a TV series - not this time." The Sunday Telegraph, Sunday 15th September 2007
Accompanies the TV Series
Published in 2007, BBC Books
‘In Search of Myths & Heroes’
Myths & Heroes by Michael Wood
Accompanies the TV Series
Published in 2005, BBC Books
‘In Search of Shakespeare’
Accompanies the TV Series
Published in 2003, BBC Books
Conquistadors by Michael Wood
'Conquistadors'
Accompanies the TV series.
Published November 2000
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In Search of England by Michael Wood
'In Search of England'
Published 1999, Viking/Penguin
"Provocative and thoroughly satisfying"
Sunday Times"He has the ability to convey complex ideas with compelling simplicity"
The Times"Better than any historian for decades, Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings, landscapes and written texts may be read, but the sensual beauty of encounters with them"
Times Literary Supplement
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In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
'In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great'
Published 1997
No.1 UK best seller
Following the route of Alexander the Great from Greece to India linking ancient and contemporary history. Accompanies the TV series.
"Michael Wood is a superb teacher and story teller...the result is fascinating television - irresistable confirmation of the fact that history, well told, can be alive and compelling"
LA Times"Time and again he has demonstrated a knack for making the story of remote peoples, empires and gods seem topical"
New York Times"It is the amazing degree to which history actually has shaped modern life that provides this book's magic"
Irish News"The book is well written, illustrated and presented and it is as easy to read as its parent television series was easy to watch"
Times Literary Supplement
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'The Smile of Murugan. A South Indian journey.'
Published 1995, Penguin
"Indispensable for any traveller to South India"
Rough Guide 2000"Fascinating"
Lonely Planet Guide to India"Wood has approached a native's understanding of the people"
The Times"He brings back shrewd and affectionate observations"
Independent"Refreshing...Wood represents the sensibility of a new kind of post-colonial Englishman, given more to delight in observation and to participation than to arriving at conclusions...a good travelling companion, susceptible to enchantment, funny, and alive to his surroundings"
Amit Chaudhuri, Observer
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'Legacy; In Search of the Origins of Civilisation'
Published 1992
Tracing the first civilisations in six ancient cultures: Egypt, Iraq, India, China, Central America and Europe. Accompanies the TV series.
"A brilliant exploration"
Sunday Times"Programme making of a high order"
Financial Times"A bold Journey that will inspire viewers"
New York Times"Well-written, gorgeous and guaranteed to induce thought... Wood takes great care to put everything in a large historical perspective, which is actually more disturbing than comforting"
New York Post"Highly recommended...top quality programming"
The Hindu(India)
'Art of the Western World'
Published 1989
Introductory Essay
New York
'Green and Pleasant Land: The Photographs of John Davies'
Published 1987
'Domesday'
Published 1986
No.1 UK best seller
'The World Atlas of Archaeology'
(Editor)
Published 1985
'In Search of the Trojan War'
Published 1985
UK No.1; translations include German, Dutch,and Italian. Penguin edition 1996; U.C.P edition 1998
"A dazzing and exhaustive analysis"
Washington Post"Vividly evokes themes that are central to our civilisation's quest for its past"
New York Times"A glorious archaeological armchair adventure...seeded throughout with intellectual discovery"
Christian Science Monitor"Eagerly recommended:
Los Angeles Times Book Review"A TV Thriller"
Ta Nea(Athens)"A tour de force"
Prof GS Kirk: The Iliad: A Commentary (Cambridge 1990)
'Shakespeare In Perspective'
(Contributor)
Published 1984
'River Journeys'
(Contributor)
'Great Little Railways'
(Contributor)
Published 1983
'Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society'
(Contributor)
Published 1983
'Great Railway Journeys of the World'
Published 1981
In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood
'In Search of The Dark Ages'
Published 1981
UK No.1;
new edition 1987 Penguin ed. 1994
Michael Wood's reviews and articles have appeared in the Daily and Weekend Telegraph, Evening Standard, Literary Review, The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Express, The Independent , The Daily Mail, The Observer and Newsday in the States. He is a regular contributor to Dialogue magazine, an influential periodical on the Muslim World.