The Great Sea HC25 Along the way he did

Along the way he did a prodigious amount of research on the history of anything and everything

The fifteenth instalment in the globally bestselling Michael Bennett series

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political and economic upheaval: a time when what we think of as modern Scotland

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The Great Sea HC25 Along the way he didFor over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern tourism. Ranging across time and the whole extraordinary space of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Jaffa, Genoa to Tunis, and bringing to life pilgrims, pirates, sultans and naval commanders, this is