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MEDITERRANEAN CRUISES & ISLANDS
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The Ancient Mediterranean World, from the Stone Age to A.D. 600
• Robin Winks
• Susan Mattern-Parkes
HISTORY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
A concise history of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome from the Paleolithic through the seventh century A.D., geared for university students. With 50 illustrations and 10 maps.
(MED92, $44.95) |
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Corrupting Sea, A Study of Mediterranean History
• Peregrin Horden
• Nicholas Purcell
HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 776 PAGES
Horden and Purcell focus on the focus on the classical and medieval periods in this massively researched, thought-provoking, academic economic and social history of the Mediterranean.
(MED115, $49.95) |
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The Hundred Days
• Patrick O'Brian
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
In the second to last of O'Brian's wildly popular "Aubrey and Maturin" novels, the seafaring duo are hot on the trail of Napoleon Bonaparte, who has escaped from exile on Elba and is threatening to invade Europe. The plot hinges on a shipment of Islamic gold that must be intercepted at all costs.
(MED38, $14.95) |
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The Iliad/The Odyssey
• Homer
• Robert Fagles
• Bernard Knox
LITERATURE •
2006 •
HARD COVER
A boxed edition of the Fagles translation of Homer, celebrated for its clarity and expressiveness. In two hardcover volumes, with a handsome slipcase.
(GRE282, $75.00) |
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In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
• Michael Wood
HISTORY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Historian Michael Wood recreates the epic journey of Alexander the Great across Asia in this companion volume to the documentary television series. With a good selection of maps, photographs and illustrations of Hellenic art and artifacts from the region.
(MED23, $26.95) |
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Leo Africanus
• Amin Maalouf
LITERATURE •
1992 •
PAPER
• 360 PAGES
A fictional memoir documenting the first 40 years in the life of Leo Africanus (or Leo the African), a Muslim scholar whose travels lead him throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Based on a real-life figure, Leo is witness to many of the revolutionary changes and figures in the Western world of the period.
(MED55, $16.95) |
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Lonely Planet Mediterranean Europe
• Steve Fallon
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 992 PAGES
The Lonely Planet treatment of Mediterranean Europe, including Albania, Andorra, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey, plus Tunisia and Morocco. 140 Maps. Hefty!
(MED37, $29.99) |
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A Mediterranean Feast
• Clifford A. Wright
FOOD •
1999 •
HARD COVER
• 815 PAGES
"A Mediterranean Feast" includes fourteen original maps of the contemporary and historical Mediterranean, a guide to the Mediterranean pantry, food products resources, a complete bibliography, and a recipe and general index, in addition to a pronunciation key. An astonishing accomplishment of culinary and historical research and detective work in eight languages, "A Mediterranean Feast" is required--and intriguing--reading for any cook, armchair or otherwise.
(MED126, $39.99) |
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Mediterranean Summer, A Season on France's Cote D'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella
• David Shalleck
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
A young American chef recounts his alluring, evocative summer voyage on the Mediterranean and into the enchanting seaside towns of France's Cote d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella aboard an Italian billionaire couple's spectacular yacht.
(MED111, $13.99) |
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Mediterranean Winter, The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece
• Robert D. Kaplan
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
The prolific journalist and traveler revisits the Mediterranean of his youth in this extended meditation on the pleasures and freedom of life on the road. He conjures images of archaeological sites, Byzantine art, ancient temples and monuments, taking in Carthage, Sicily, Greece, and the Dalmatian coast.
(MED78, $16.00) |
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The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook
• Nancy Harmon Jenkins
FOOD •
2008 •
HARD COVER
• 496 PAGES
Experienced and novice cooks alike will be inspired by these delectable, seasonally inspired recipes ranging from sweet young Roman-style peas for spring to skewered shrimp for summer, robust North African Pumpkin Soup when autumn is in the air, and warming winter dishes like Lebanese Garlicky Roast Chicken and Cypriote Braised Pork with Wine, Cinnamon, and Coriander--plus a variety of fabulous pizzas and dinner pies, hearty salads like Tuscan panzanella, and satisfying small dishes.
(MED160, $35.00) |
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Paul, The Mind of the Apostle
• A.N. Wilson
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1998 •
PAPER
• 273 PAGES
From the author of the best-selling biographies of Jesus and Tolstoy comes this richly detailed portrait of the apostle Paul, firmly grounded in the everyday details of life in the Roman Empire. It's a mind-opening, partly historical study of the culture, politics and religion of the early years of Christianity.
(MED19, $16.95) |
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Phaenomena
• Aaron Poochigian
• Solensis Aratus
LITERATURE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 72 PAGES
Born in a fragment of Alexander the Great's dissolved empire in what is now southern Turkey, Aratus wrote his most famous poem after joining the Macedonian court as poet in the third century C.E. After the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Phaenomena was the most widely read poem in the ancient world, quoted by St. Paul in the New Testament and one of the few Greek poems translated into Arabic. The poem, which teaches readers to identify constellations and predict changes in the weather, is a stunning example of the ancient link between science and poetry. Poochigian's lively new translation includes star charts and an extensive introduction..
(GRE490, $25.00) |
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Race of Scorpions
• Dorothy Dunnett
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 534 PAGES
An absorbing tale of political intrigue set in the 15th-century Ottoman empire and throughout the Mediterranean. It's volume three of Dunnett's masterful "House of Niccolo" series, the story of Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, a young dyer's apprentice who gets caught up in the rivalry for the throne of Cyprus. The characters may be fictitious but the historical footing is solid and the setting credible.
(MED33, $16.95) |
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Rethinking the Mediterranean
• W. V. Harris
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 440 PAGES
Originally presented at a 2001 conference, these scholarly articles focus on the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, its history, myth and meaning.
(MED116, $65.00) |
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South Wind Through the Kitchen, The Best of Elizabeth David
• Elizabeth David
FOOD •
2011 •
HARD COVER
• 400 PAGES
A selection of recipes and essays, chosen judiciously by Jill Norman, from David's nine influential books, including Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking. With 200 recipes. David writes equally as well and insightfully about culture and society as about the food itself. Julian Barnes provides the introduction to this edition. First published in the 1950s.
(MED30, $29.95) |
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Island Dreams Mediterranean
• Jeremy Horner
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES
Corfu, Rhodes and Mykonos, Hvar and Procida (the setting for Il Postino) are all included in this photographic journey thhrough the Mediterrean.
(MED158, $40.00) |
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