The Middle Sea : A History Of The Mediterranean

Author: John Julius Norwich

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  • : 32.99 AUD
  • : 9781844133086
  • : Random House
  • : Vintage
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  • : May 2007
  • : 199mm X 131mm X 31mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : 909.09822
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  • : 32 pp colour and b/w illustrations; 8 maps
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Barcode 9781844133086
9781844133086

Description

The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery, it has served at various times as a cradle and a grave, a bond and a barrier, a blessing and a battlefield. It has inspired writers from Homer and Virgil to Norman Douglas and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Geographically, it is unlike any other sea in the world; in historical importance also, it stands alone. John Julius Norwich has visited every country around its shores; he has written histories of Norman Sicily, of Venice and of Byzantium. Now at last he tells the story of the Middle Sea itself - a story that begins with the Phoenicians and the Pharaohs and ends with the Treaty of Versailles. First published 2006.

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A magnificent undertaking: a one-volume narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, written in the racy readable prose for which John Julius Norwich is famous

Author description

John Julius Norwich is the author of histories of Norman Sicily, of the Republic of Venice and of the Byzantine Empire. He has also written on architecture, music and the history plays of Shakespeare, and has presented some thirty historical documentaries on BBC Television. He is now working on a volume of memoirs.Formerly Chairman of Colnaghi - the oldest fine art dealers in London - he remains Chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund and the World Monuments Fund in Britain. For twenty-five years he was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust, and has also served on the Boards of the English National Opera and the London Library. He is a regular lecturer on history, art history, architecture and music, and is an enthusiastic night-club pianist.