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Query: Well told story of the last Constantine, but...where's the map?

I would, for the most part, simply echo what others have said here. This book is a finely researched (and told) story of the last emperor of the Romans. It reads very quickly, does a nice job of navigating the many stories and legends surrounding the ultimate fate of Constantine. Of particular interest to me were the anecdotes relating to Turkish legends about the Golden Gate as the future entry point of the awakened emperor. Having visited the Golden Gate in Istanbul I can attest that it has a certain forlorn and eerie quality to the visitor who has an understanding of Byzantine history. Nicol includes interesting material on the Paleaologos family since 1453.The book contains a good family tree and numerous interesting illustrations but, curiously, no map. Books of historical interest dealing with a welter of locations, as this one does, which do not include a decent map or two are a mystery to me.