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These 5 items are available for $97, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXMED599)

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)
The Mediterranean in History  •  David Abulafia CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2011 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES David Abulafia leads a team of eight distinguished historians in an exploration of the facts, themes, and epochs of the history of the Great Sea: the physical setting; the rivalry between Carthaginians, Greeks, and Etruscans for control of sea routes; unification under Rome and the subsequent break up into Western Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam; the Crusades; commerce in medieval times; the Ottoman resurgence; the rivalry of European powers from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries; and the globalization of the region in the last century. With 150 color and 150 archival illustrations of art, architecture and archaeology. Published by the J. Paul Getty Museum. (MED79, $29.95)
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)
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)
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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