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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $80, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXMED426)		  
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)		   Mediterranean by Cruise Ship
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)		   The Ancient Mediterranean
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)		   The Histories
The Peloponnesian War  •  Donald Kagan
HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 511 PAGES
Kagan, a professor of classics and history at Yale, has distilled his four-volume history (and other scholarship on 5th-century B.C. Greece), into this single, magnificent book. With excellent, well-integrated maps. A popular writer as well as a scholar, Kagan succeeds admirably in his aim to offer both pleasure and wisdom in this wise account. He draws on Thucydides, Aristotle, and other lesser-known contemporaries in illuminating the 30-year war between Athens and Sparta (GRE183, $18.00)		  
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)		   Mediterranean Cruises Map



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Eyewitness Guide Greek Islands  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Color photography, excellent local maps and an island-by-island synopsis of attractions make this book the one to carry with you. (GRE37, $28.00)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Sicily  •  Eyewitness Guides  •  DK Publishing   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This superb guide to Sicily features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a synopsis of the island's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (ITL468, $23.00)
 		  
Eyewitness Top Ten Athens  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions, events, restaurants, shops and excursions in Athens. (GRE219, $14.00)
 		  
Fodor's Rome's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This shirt-pocket guide includes a map of the city and essential information on its highlights. (ITL112, $11.99)
 		  
A War Like No Other, How the Athenians And Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War  •  Victor Davis Hanson   • HISTORY  •  A meticulous, scholarly exploration of the war that engulfed Athens and Sparta for 27 years. Hanson provides context for Thucydides' narrative and delves into the specifics of ancient war tactics. (GRE347, $17.00)
 		  
Between Salt Water and Holy Water, A History of Southern Italy  •  Tommaso Astarita   • HISTORY  •  Astarita captures the fanfare, rivalry and changing fortunes of Sicily from antiquity through Norman, Spanish and Bourbon rule to unification and the 20th century. (ITL597, $22.95)
 		  
Fortress Malta, An Island Under Siege 1940-43  •  James Holland   • HISTORY  •  In this powerful, intimate book British journalist James Holland draws on letters, diaries and interviews to bring to life the military campaigns, heroism and drama of Malta during WWII. (MLT19, $27.95)
 		  
Sicily, Three Thousand Years of Human History  •  Sandra Benjamin   • HISTORY  •  With clarity and authority, Benjamin traces the rich legacy of the Greeks and Romans, Vandals and Goths, Arab traders, Normans, Bourbons and others who have contributed to the multi-faceted history of the kingdom of Sicily. (ITL731, $19.95)
 		  
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization  •  Barry Strauss   • HISTORY  •  A lively account of the 480 B. C. battle between Greece and Persia. Strauss, a military historian, draws on contemporary accounts of Herodotus, Aeschylus, and Plutarch. (GRE234, $15.00)
 		  
The Classical World  •  Robin Lane Fox   • HISTORY  •  Fox conjures tyrants, conquerors and enthralling personalities, from Homer to Hadrian, in this marvelously written history of ancient Greece and Rome. (GRE293, $19.99)
 		  
The History of the Peloponnesian War  •  Thucydides  •  Walter Blanco  •  Jennifer Tolbert   • HISTORY  •  The classic account of the debilitating war between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, from 431 to 404 B.C. (GRE102, $17.00)
 		  
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, $21.00)
 		  
The Second World War  •  John Keegan   • HISTORY  •  A masterfully written, thematically arranged history of the Second World War. (WAR44, $25.00)
 		  
The Western Way of War, Infantry Battle in Classical Greece  •  Victor Davis Hanson  •  John Keegan   • HISTORY  •  A noted classical scholar examines war among the Greek city-states. (GRE162, $21.95)
 		  
Minoan and Mycenaean Art  •  Reynold Higgins   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A survey of the ancient art of Crete, Mycenae and the Cyclades in its cultural context, revised to include recent archaeology. With maps and 241 illustrations. (GRE61, $19.95)
 		  
The Search for Ancient Greece  •  Roland Etienne  •  Francoise Etienne   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Lavishly illustrated, this pocket encyclopedia covers the archaeology and meaning of ancient Greece, quite an accomplishment for such a slim book. (GRE01, $15.95)
 		  
Crete  •  Barry Unsworth   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A travel memoir from the Booker prize-winning novelist, richly detailed and seeped in the millennia-old traditions, myths, literature and history of the island. (GRE303, $10.95)
 		  
The Colossus of Maroussi  •  Henry Miller   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Miller captures the spirit and warmth of the resilient Greek people in this inspired tale of a wartime journey from Athens to Crete, Corfu and Delphi with his friend Lawrence Durrell. (GRE05, $12.95)
 		  
Gates of Fire  •  Steven Pressfield   • LITERATURE  •  A historical novel telling the story of the Battle of Thermopylae, where a handful of Spartan knights held off Xerxes and the Persian army for a week before being slaughtered. A page-turner. (GRE127, $7.99)
 		  
Greece, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Artemis Leontis   • ANTHOLOGY  •  In this terrific anthology, 24 modern Greek writers introduce Greek culture, people and landscapes. (GRE190, $14.95)
 		  
Ironfire, A Novel of the Knights of Malta and the Last Battle of the Crusades  •  David Ball   • LITERATURE  •  In this rousing historical novel the fates of a young boy, his sister, one of the Knights of Malta and an inquisitor play out against the backdrop of the 16th-century Ottoman assault on Malta, the formidable citadel of the Knights of St. John. (MLT18, $15.00)
 		  
The Iliad  •  Homer  •  Robert Fagles   • LITERATURE  •  In the excellent Fagles translation -- here presented in a deluxe paper edition -- Homer's Trojan epic hasn't aged a bit in the last 2,700 years. Take it along to Troy and the Aegean. We also carry Fagles's translation of The Odyssey. (Item no. GRE45, $17.00) (GRE173, $17.00)
 		  
The King Must Die  •  Mary Renault   • LITERATURE  •  A novel of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur and king of Athens, including his Cretan adventures. The first in Renault's trilogy of well-researched page-turners. (GRE23, $15.00)
 		  
The Leopard  •  Giuseppe Di Lampedusa   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  Evoking a lost world of privilege and tradition, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa's memorable tale, set on a rural Sicilian estate during the days of independence, follows the world-weary Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina. A classic, now in a 50th anniversary edition. (ITL11, $16.00)
 		  
The Odyssey  •  Homer  •  Robert Fagles   • LITERATURE  •  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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