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The Ancient Mediterranean
• Michael Grant
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1990 •
PAPER
• 374 PAGES
Grant, a well known classical scholar, draws on archaeology, geography, art and economics to paint a vivid picture of ancient cultures, from prehistory through the Roman Imperium, and their influence on western civilization. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, and 19 maps of the region.
(MED10, $20.00) |
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Athens Map
• World Mapping Project
MAP
A water- and tearproof foldup map of Athens and surroundings, at an excellent scale. Two Sides. 20x25 inches.
(GRE160, $8.99) |
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Beyond the Edge of the Sea
• Mauricio Obregon
HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 132 PAGES
The adventures of Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses and other explorers of the ancient world are recreated in this personal account of ships, navigation and geographical discovery. While much of this slim book is focused on the classic Mediterranean, Obregon includes a chapter on the Norse discovery of the New World. With drawings, maps and illustrations throughout.
(MED50, $15.00) |
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The Black Sea, A History
• Charles King
HISTORY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 296 PAGES
This brisk narrative history takes in the history, culture and politics of the region from 700 B.C. to the 1990s. King argues that, like the Mediterranean, the Black Sea unites diverse languages and cultures (Greek, Roman, Armenian, Persian, Scythian, Byzantine, Ottoman, Tatar and Mongol). The book opens with a chapter on Pontus Euxinus, an ancient Greek site along the shores of the Black Sea. Charles King is a professor in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. With four maps and 15 black-and-white photographs.
(EUR173, $35.00) |
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Eyewitness Guide Greece, Athens and the Mainland
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 354 PAGES
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(GRE38, $25.00) |
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Eyewitness Guide Turkey
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2012 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book provides a thorough overview of history, traditions and sights. With color photographs and maps.
(TKY82, $30.00) |
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 294 PAGES
Scott, whose interest in the history of cathedrals began when he first saw the magnificent Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salisbury, England, takes his reader on a historical, architectural and sociological tour of the magnificent spires and stained-glass windows that dot the landscape of Europe. It's an accessible, personable overview.
(EUR190, $21.95) |
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Greece Map
• Michelin
2011 •
MAP
A colorful shaded map of Greece, the Greek Islands and the western coast of Turkey at a scale of 1:800,000. Two Sides. 49x41 inches.
(GRE24, $12.95) |
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The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily
• Fausto Longo
• Lorena Jannelli
• Luca Cerchiai
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 288 PAGES
An engaging history of the Western Greek colonies in Sicily and southern Italy in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., featuring 240 magnificent color illustrations, maps and a site-by-site review of major archaeological sites.
(ITL751, $45.00) |
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Greek, A Language Map
• Kristine K. Kershul
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •
2003 •
PLASTIC CARD
This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(GRE241, $7.95) |
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Greene on Capri, A Memoir
• Shirley Hazzard
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2001 •
PAPER
• 160 PAGES
Slices of literary hobnobbing mixed with generous descriptions of the Italian island. This memoir is ultimately about the author's friendship with Graham Greene, but there's plenty of commentary of Capri's history and culture for those seeking a flavor of the place.
(ITL440, $15.00) |
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A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey
• Mitchell Reddish
• Clyde Fant
GUIDEBOOK •
2003 •
PAPER
• 395 PAGES
A guide to the places, history and archaeology of the journeys of the Apostle Paul across Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus, geared for the traveler. With black-and-white photographs, site diagrams and maps. The authors, both biblical scholars, have led many travel study groups through the region.
(MED90, $29.99) |
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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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Insight Guide Greece
• Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 392 PAGES
An illustrated survey of the history, culture and attractions of Greece for the traveler with excellent, full color maps. With chapters on Athens, the Cyclades, Ionian Islands and other regions throughout Greece and the Greek Islands.
(GRE104, $22.99) |
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Istanbul Map
• Borch Maps
2011 •
MAP
A laminated folded map at a scale of 1:11,000. Two Sides. 19.5x26 inches.
(TKY65, $8.95) |
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Istanbul, the Imperial City
• John Freely
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
A lively, anecdotal history of the city geared for the traveler. With historic and modern photographs and neighborhood maps. Freely concludes with a helpful, 60-page section on monuments and museums.
(TKY23, $17.00) |
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A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece
• Richard Stoneman
ANTHOLOGY •
1994 •
PAPER
• 347 PAGES
Poetry, prose and literature over the ages, arranged geographically with an excellent introduction and commentary. Stoneman artfully weaves together hundreds of short excerpts from the likes of Homer, Byron, Twain and Kazantzakis, drawing heavily on 19th-century British literature.
(GRE06, $19.95) |
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Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook
• Arzu Kurklu
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •
2008 •
PAPER
• 259 PAGES
A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. With a 2,000-word mini-dictionary.
(TKY115, $8.99) |
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The Middle Sea
• John Julius Norwich
HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 720 PAGES
A marvelous writer who has already tackled Byzantium, the Normans in Sicily and Venice, Norwich spins his magic in this story of culture, trade and politics, royalty and rulers, wars and religion in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the end of the First World War.
(MED98, $21.00) |
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National Geographic Greece
• Mike Gerrard
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
This abundantly illustrated guide to Greece and the Greek Islands includes insightful essays on history, art and culture, and limited practical travel details.
(GRE178, $27.95) |
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On the Shores of the Mediterranean
• Eric Newby
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 448 PAGES
A sparkling observer and famously entertaining writer, Newby tackles the Mediterranean in these merry essays. He finds himself in North Africa, the Adriatic, Venice, Naples, the Greek Islands, Turkey, Cairo and Jerusalem.
(MED25, $18.95) |
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The Ottoman Centuries
• Lord Kinross
HISTORY •
1988 •
PAPER
• 638 PAGES
A richly detailed, engrossing history of the Ottoman Empire from its dawn in 1300 through its zenith under Suleiman the magnificent and up to the foundation of the modern republic in 1923. With maps and black-and-white photographs throughout.
(ITL54, $18.99) |
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The Parthenon
• Mary Beard
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 204 PAGES
Cambridge University classicist Mary Beard brings the Parthenon to life in this lively tale of the construction, significance and many uses -- cathedral, mosque, cultural icon -- of the 2,500-year-old Athenian marvel. With 24 black-and-white photographs, a few illustrations, site and building diagrams and a map. The book is both an introduction to the ancient Greeks and an engaging guide to the Parthenon. She opens with a chapter "Why the Parthenon Might make You Cry." A volume in the Harvard University Press series, Wonders of the World.
(GRE195, $14.95) |
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
• Robert Morkot
REFERENCE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
This pictorial survey of Greek history, culture and expansion features dozens of full color-maps.
(GRE125, $18.00) |
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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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Roumeli, Travels in Northern Greece
• Patrick Leigh Fermor
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 260 PAGES
An account of travels, history and place by the incomparable Fermor, who lived in Greece for many decades, originally published in 1966. Among his many odd and enlightening adventures, Fermor visits with the Sarakatsans and Kravarites, two remote peoples (ethnography is among his many interests), and chases off to Missolonghi to retrieve a pair of Lord Byron's shoes.
(GRE249, $15.95) |
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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
• Mark Mazower
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 528 PAGES
In this inviting book, part history and part travelogue, Mazower chronicles the fate of Christians, Jews and Muslims in Salonica through Ottoman rule, Europeanization, and devastations of WWII. At the crossroads of the Aegean in Northern Greece, Thessaloniki (as the city was originally founded and is known today) has been a place of commerce and coexistence since its days as a Byzantine port. Mazower, professor of history at Columbia University, is the author of The Balkans: A Short History. He writes with authority and verve.
(GRE232, $18.00) |
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A Short History of Byzantium
• John Julius Norwich
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
A richly detailed and evocative narrative history of the tumultuous span of the great empire from the fourth century to the fifteenth, brimming with intrigue, skullduggery, palace revolution and other treachery. Norwich has also published a definitive three-volume history of Byzantium.
(TKY18, $19.00) |
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A Traveller's History of Greece
• Timothy Boatswain
• Colin Nicolson
HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 344 PAGES
A nicely written survey of Greece from prehistory through the 1990s: wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer. Five out of 21 chapters devoted to the 20th century, making this book a good choice for those interested in modern Greek history.
(GRE55, $14.95) |
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A Traveller's History of Turkey
• Richard Stoneman
HISTORY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 247 PAGES
A classicist and popular writer, Stoneman traces the history of Turkey from prehistoric Anatolia through the Hittite Age, Persian Empire, Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans and the Ataturk years to the present in this lively compact history. With a chronology, historical gazeteer, maps and list of rulers from the early dynasties to Abdullah Gul, 11th President of the Republic of Turkey.
(TKY13, $14.95) |
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Turkey Map
• Freytag & Berndt
2011 •
MAP
A shaded relief map of all Turkey, including the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts at a scale of 1:2,000,000 with a more detailed map of Western Turkey on the reverse (1:800,000). With a detailed, 32-page index. Two Sides. 35x44 inches.
(TKY29, $14.95) |
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The World of Odysseus
• Moses I. Finley
HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 205 PAGES
A classic portrait of ancient Greek society based in large part on the author's ground-breaking interpretation of the Iliad and Odyssey, first published in 1954. This short book takes the form of essays on "Household, Kin and Community, Morals and Values," and other illuminating topics.
(GRE76, $14.95) |
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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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