PublishedAllen Lane, August 2011 |
ISBN9780713999341 |
FormatHardcover, 768 pages |
Dimensions24cm × 16.2cm × 5.2cm |
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilization. From the time of Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity on and around the Sea has decisively shaped much of the course of world history.
This is the first complete history of what has happened on and immediately around the Mediterranean, from the erection of the mysterious temples on Malta around 3500 BC to the recent reinvention of the Mediterranean's shores as a tourist destination.
