Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Norwich, John Julius |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 12/4/2007 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 yearsof history in the cradle of civilization.
A wonderfully illustrated account of thecivilizations that rose and fell on the lands bordering the Mediterranean, The MiddleSea represents the culmination of a great historian’s unparalleled art and Julius Norwich provides brilliant portraits of the Phoenicians, the Egyptians,the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the French, the Venetians, thePopes, and the pirates of the Gulf. Above all, he deftly traces the interminglingof ancient conflicts and modern sensibilities that shapes life today on the shoresof the Middle Sea.
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