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	Mediterranean by Cruise Ship  •  Anne Vipond GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES • BEST SELLER 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)
	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)
	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)
	Mediterranean Cruises Map  •   Freytag & Berndt 2008 •  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)

	Bradt Guide North Africa, The Roman Coast  •  Ethel Davis   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical, informative guide brings to life the ancient Roman heritage of modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. (NAF68, $25.99)
	A Book of Mediterranean Food  •  Elizabeth David   • FOOD  •  A classic mix of lore, literary asides, recipes and enthusiasm for the food and culture of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and the Middle East. Published in the gloom of post-WWII Britain, David's tribute brims with affection for the strongly flavored food of the Mediterranean. (MED71, $14.95)
	A Mediterranean Feast  •  Clifford A. Wright   • FOOD  •  A culinary classic, this erudite, appetizing book takes in the scope of the food, people and history of the Mediterranean, mixing recipes with scholarship and an appreciation of place. (MED126, $39.99)
	The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook  •  Nancy Harmon Jenkins   • FOOD  •  Bursting with good health and great flavors, this revised classic features 250 recipes highlighting the food and culture spanning the Mediterranean from Spain, France and Italy to Greece, Turkey, Morocco and the Middle East. (MED160, $35.00)
	Beyond the Edge of the Sea  •  Maurice Obregon   • HISTORY  •  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. (MED50, $15.00)
	Casa Mediterranea  •  Massimo Listri   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Traditional tile-roofed villas, historic gardens, contemporary masterpieces and beautiful houses of all sorts are included in this visual tour of style around the Mediterranean from France, Italy and Spain to Greece and Turkey, Morocco and Egypt. (MED159, $45.00)
	Corrupting Sea, A Study of Mediterranean History  •  Peregrin Horden  •  Nicholas Purcell   • HISTORY  •  A provocative history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region. (MED115, $46.95)
	Empires of the Sea  •  Roger Crowley   • HISTORY  •  Crowley vividly reconstructs the epic clash between the Ottoman Empire and Christendom for the control of the Mediterranean -- and the soul of 16th-century Europe -- in this thrilling account of dramatic battles and brutality, rival faiths and larger-than-life personalities. (MED146, $16.00)
	Memory and the Mediterranean  •  Fernand Braudel  •  Sian Reynolds  •  Roselyne de Ayala   • HISTORY  •  A fascinating scholarly history of the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel, covering the cultures of the Mediterranean from prehistory to the flowering of the Roman Empire. (MED51, $16.00)
	Sea of Faith  •  Stephen O'Shea   • HISTORY  •  O'Shea brings a traveler's eye and a poet's touch to this gripping tale of conquest, co-existence and conflict in the medieval Mediterranean. He focuses on seven key battles between Christians and Muslims from Yamuk (AD 636) to the Siege of Malta (1565). (MED95, $17.00)
	The Histories  •   Herodotus   • HISTORY  •  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)
	The Mediterranean in History  •  David Abulafia   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An engaging, richly illustrated overview of the civilizations, societies and grand themes of the Mediterranean by a team of eight historians. (MED79, $50.00)
	The Middle Sea  •  John Julius Norwich   • HISTORY  •  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. (MED98, $20.00)
	Rough Guide Mediterranean Cafe Music  •   Various Artists   • MUSIC  •  A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of the cafe culture along the Mediterranean coasts, including music of Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt. (MED100, $14.98)
	Sun-Drenched Gardens, The Mediterranean Style  •  Jan Smithen   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This well photographed sourcebook documents Mediterranean horticultural style from Italian Renaissance villas to formal French parterres. (MED144, $40.00)
	A Year in the World, Journeys of a Passionate Traveler  •  Frances Mayes   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A warm account of mostly Mediterranean travels -- Spain, Portugal, Greece, Sicily, Capri, Sardinia, the Turkish Coast, Naples, Burgundy, Scotland -- arranged by season. (TVL109, $15.00)
	Island Dreams Mediterranean  •  Jeremy Horner   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Corfu, Rhodes and Mykonos, Hvar and Procida (the setting for Il Postino) are all included in this photographic journey through the Mediterranean. (MED158, $40.00)
	Mediterranean Summer, A Season on France's Cote D'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella  •  David Shalleck   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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)
	Mediterranean Winter, The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece  •  Robert D. Kaplan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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. (MED78, $14.00)
	On the Shores of the Mediterranean  •  Eric Newby   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A sparkling observer and famously entertaining, Newby tackles the Mediterranean in this merry classic asccount of travels to North Africa, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cairo and Jerusalem. (MED25, $24.95)
	The Spirit of Mediterranean Places  •  Michel Butor   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  In this remarkable short book, the celebrated French novelist chronicles his travels to Cairo, Luxor, Crete, Istanbul and other Mediterranean sites in absorbing, appreciative painterly detail. (MED03, $13.95)
	Mediterranean Passages, Readings from Dido to Derrida  •  Miriam Cooke   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This compendium highlights 3,000 years of cultural exchange around the Mediterranean. With an assortment of maps, architectural drawings, photographs, paintings and historical and literary texts, it brings antiquity into conversation with the present. (MED139, $24.95)
	The Iliad/The Odyssey  •   Homer  •  Robert Fagles  •  Bernard Knox   • LITERATURE  •  This deluxe edition of the Fagles translation of Homer, celebrated for its clarity and expressiveness, comes in two hardcover volumes with a handsome slipcase. (GRE282, $75.00)
	Plant Life in the World's Mediterranean Climates  •  Paul Dallman   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Richly illustrated, clearly written and engaging, this book is an ecological overview of the landscapes, plants and vegetation types found in Mediterranean climates. (MED21, $35.95)
	The Nature of Mediterranean Europe, An Ecological History  •  A.T. Grove  •  Oliver Rackham   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The authors -- a geographer and botanist -- trace ecological change in the Medterranean from prehistory to present in 20 beautifully illustrated chapters. With 345 color photographs, along with charts, graphs and black-and-white illustrations. (MED81, $50.00)
	Birds of the Mediterranean, A Photographic Guide  •  Paul Sterry   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A slim, concise and clearly organized guide to 440 species of birds from the Mediterranean. Range maps and descriptions are opposite good, clear color photographs, digitally enhanced to aid in identification. (MED82, $29.00)

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