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After the Divorce
• Grazia Deledda
• Susan Ashe
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 174 PAGES
In 1926 Grazia Deledda won the Nobel Prize for literature, making her, at the time, only the second woman to receive such an honor. This powerful and tragic tale of murder and infidelity is set, like many of her novels, on her native Sardinia. Evocative of the pre-Christian era in the Mediterranean, it tells of what happens when a suspected murderer learns from prison that his wife is remarrying.
(ITL196, $17.00) |
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Complete Mediterranean Wildlife
• Paul Sterry
FIELD GUIDE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 384 PAGES
An illustrated survey of the plants, animals, birds, insects, marine mammals and other wildlife of the Mediterranean region, useful as a field guide. With 1,500 color photographs.
(MED49, $29.99) |
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Eyewitness Guide Sardinia
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the island of Sardinia, featuring color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a synopsis of the island's attractions.
(ITL183, $20.00) |
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Foucault's Pendulum
• Umberto Eco
• William Weaver
LITERATURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 623 PAGES
Eco's stunning sophomore effort is a wild, complex conspiracy novel set in Milan. The narrator (an expert on the Knights Templar) and his co-workers in a vanity publishing house specializing in hermetics invent a stunningly contrived plot to appeal to their readers. It involves Templars, Rosicrucians, Cabalists, occultists, Freemasons, Jesuits, and more. As events progess, the book becomes a study in how fiction can influence reality. A verbose, philosophical, scholarly cross-genre predecessor to the Da Vinci Code, perfect for readers who feel up to an extremely rewarding challenge.
(ITL649, $15.95) |
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The Histories
• Herodotus
HISTORY •
1994 •
PAPER
• 656 PAGES
In what may be the first travel book, Herodotus records the heroic struggle between Europe and Asia that culminated in the invasion of Greece by Xerxes.
(MED15, $11.00) |
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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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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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Insight Guide Malta
• Geoffrey Aquilina Ross
GUIDEBOOK •
2012 •
PAPER
• 312 PAGES
A survey of the history and culture of Malta for the traveler, featuring color photographs and excellent local maps. Comprehensive and colorful.
(MLT05, $19.99) |
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The Ionian Mission
• Patrick O'Brian
LITERATURE •
1991 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
Captain Jack at large in the Mediterranean in an ancient man-of-war. This, the eighth volume in the rousing Aubrey and Maturin series, takes the commander and his naturalist sidekick into the eponymous Ionian Isles, getting them mixed up not only with the French navy but also in Ottoman affairs.
(MED26, $14.95) |
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The Jew of Malta
• David Bevington
• Christopher Marlowe
LITERATURE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 150 PAGES
Marlowe's play, written around 1590, of Barabas, a rich Maltese Jew whose land is confiscated -- and whose plans for revenge prove his undoing.
(MLT14, $14.00) |
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Malta Prehistory and Temples
• David H. Trump
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 319 PAGES
A clear, well illustrated account of the temple-building period, 3500 and 2500 BC, in Malta and Gozo.
(MED167, $39.95) |
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Malta, Phoenician, Punic and Roman
• A. Bonanno
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 359 PAGES
A survey of the archaeological heritage of Malta focusing on the classical period and accompanied by color photographs.
(MLT26, $33.00) |
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Master and Commander
• Patrick O'Brian
LITERATURE •
1990 •
PAPER
• 412 PAGES
The very first of the wildly (and deservedly!) popular ocean-going novels of Aubrey and Maturin. It sets Captain Jack and his surgeon/naturalist/spy sidekick Stephen Maturin against an impressively researched backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. This first volume takes place in O'Brian's backyard in the Western Mediterranean with significant action taking place at Minorca, Palermo and Gibraltar.
(MED27, $13.95) |
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II
• Fernand Braudel
HISTORY •
1996 •
PAPER
• 642 PAGES
Volume I in the classic history of the Mediterranean, this book by the great Braudel is a richly detailed tour of the Mediterranean in the 1500s, a time of discovery and empire building. Not for the faint of heart, avid readers of history will devour this book.
(MED18, $45.00) |
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Mediterranean by Cruise Ship
• Anne Vipond
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
The best-selling, compact guide, featuring excellent local maps, hundreds of color photographs, concise background information and recommended excursions for ports-of-call throughout Greece, Italy and the Mediterranean. Useful introductory chapters cover cruising, history, art & architecture and nature of the Mediterranean. With a pull-out map and hundreds of color photographs.
(MED34, $21.95) |
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Mediterranean Cruises Map
• Freytag & Berndt
2010 •
MAP
A double-sided, full-color map of the Mediterranean, including the Iberian Peninsula and Black Sea, North Africa and the Levant, at a scale of 1:2,000,000. Two Sides. 35.5X49 inches.
(MED36, $14.95) |
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Nelles Guide Cyprus
• Nelles
GUIDEBOOK •
2000 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
This handsome guide, notable for its first-rate photography and outstanding maps, covers the history, culture and contemporary life of Cyprus.
(MED14, $15.95) |
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The Odyssey
• Homer
• Robert Fagles
LITERATURE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 541 PAGES
Translator Robert Fagles captures the poetry and power of The Odyssey in this translation, celebrated for its clarity and expressiveness.
(GRE45, $17.00) |
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Pillars of Hercules
• Paul Theroux
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 509 PAGES
Known for his wry wit, Theroux seems to have had an exceptionally good time on his tour of the Mediterranean. He sets off from Gibraltar by foot, horseback, train and boat along the coast of Spain to the French Riviera, Sardinia, Sicily and beyond. This masterful book combines anecdote, history and observation into a revealing portrait of place. He ends his journey at the other pillar, Jebel Musa, just across the Straits outside Ceuta in North Africa.
(MED20, $17.00) |
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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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The Rise of Christianity
• Rodney Stark
RELIGION •
1997 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
The subtitle to this book says it all: "How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries." More a sociological study than a religious history, the book delves into what compelled so many people to convert to the then infant religion.
(MED64, $14.99) |
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Rough Guide Corsica
• David Abram
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 496 PAGES
A no-nonsense, comprehensive travel guide with region-by-region descriptions and a good overview of history and culture. The outstanding British Rough Guide series provides an insider's sense of local life.
(MED31, $19.99) |
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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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The Spirit of Mediterranean Places
• Michel Butor
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1986 •
PAPER
• 147 PAGES
• FAVORITE
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
In this remarkable short book, the celebrated French novelist chronicles his travels to Mallia in Crete, Delphi, Salonica, Ferrara and Mantua in Northern Italy, Cordova, Istanbul and Egypt, where Butor spent a year as a young man. It's an absorbing, wonderfully appreciative account of the region, a favorite of ours.
(MED03, $13.95) |
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The Story of Malta
• Maturin Murray Ballou
HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 332 PAGES
An ecological, social and cultural history of Malta, first published in 1893 and geared for travelers.
(MLT25, $30.95) |
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Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, The Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades
• Piers Paul Read
HISTORY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 350 PAGES
A history of the Knights Templar from their formation immediately following the First Crusade to their forced disbandment under the jealous auspices of Pope Clement V and King Philip IV of France. Read describes their political and economic significance, their daily lives, and their demise and current dismal reputation.
(EUR192, $16.99) |
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Underwater Archaeology, Exploring the World Beneath the Sea
• Jean-Yves Blot
• Alexandra Campbell
EXPLORATION •
1996 •
PAPER
• 175 PAGES
An illustrated pocket introduction to the science and art of underwater archaeology, including a history of exploration, methods, artifacts, key shipwrecks and other underwater sites
(OCE39, $15.95) |
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