The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

Author(s): David Abulafia

History

For 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 the story of the sea that has shaped much of world history.br /br /'Teeming with colourful characters . . . Abulafia wears his scholarship lightly, even dashingly . . . at its heart, this is a history of mankind - gripping, worldly, bloody, playful.' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Financial Timesbr /

General Information

  • : 9780141977164
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.614
  • : October 2013
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2014
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : David Abulafia
  • : Paperback
  • : 1113
  • : en
  • : 909.09822
  • : 816
  • : HBG
  • : Illustrationsstrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour)
  • : Illustrationsstrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour)

More About The Product

David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and was until recently Chairman of the Cambridge History Faculty. His previous books include Frederick II and The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, and in 2003 was made Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana in recognition of his work on Italian and Mediterranean history.