Author: Thomas Watkins (A.M.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Travels Through Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands to Constantinople, Through Part of Greece, Ragusa, and the Dalmatian Isles
Author: Thomas Watkins (A.M.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Travels Through Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands to Constantinople, Through Part of Greece, Ragusa, and the Dalmatian Isles
Author: Thomas Watkins (A.M.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Travels through Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek islands to Constantinople [&c.].
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Author: Thomas WatkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Travels Through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands, to Constantinople, Through Part Of Greece, Ragusa And The Dalmatian Isles
Author: Thomas WatkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Travels Through Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands to Constantinople
Author: Thomas Watkins (A.M.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Travels Through Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands to Constantinople Through Part of Greece, Ragusa, and the Dalmatian Isles
Author: Thomas WatkinsA Brief History of the Mediterranean
Author: Jeremy BlackPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472144392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home. 'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.' Samuel Johnson, 1776 The Mediterranean has always been a leading stage for world history; it is also visited each year by tens of millions of tourists, both local and international. Jeremy Black provides an account in which the experience of travel is foremost: travel for tourism, for trade, for war, for migration, for culture, or, as so often, for a variety of reasons. Travellers have always had a variety of goals and situations, from rulers to slaves, merchants to pirates, and Black covers them all, from Phoenicians travelling for trade to the modern tourist sailing for pleasure and cruising in great comfort. Throughout the book the emphasis is on the sea, on coastal regions and on port cities visited by cruise liners - Athens, Barcelona, Naples, Palermo. But it also looks beyond, notably to the other waters that flow into the Mediterranean - the Black Sea, the Atlantic, the Red Sea and rivers, from the Ebro and Rhone to the Nile. Much of western Eurasia and northern Africa played, and continues to play, a role, directly or indirectly, in the fate of the Mediterranean. At times, that can make the history of the sea an account of conflict after conflict, but it is necessary to understand these wars in order to grasp the changing boundaries of the Mediterranean states, societies and religions, the buildings that have been left, and the peoples' cultures, senses of identity and histories. Black explores the centrality of the Mediterranean to the Western experience of travel, beginning in antiquity with the Phoenicians, Minoans and Greeks. He shows how the Roman Empire united the sea, and how it was later divided by Christianity and Islam. He tells the story of the rise and fall of the maritime empires of Pisa, Genoa and Venice, describes how galley warfare evolved and how the Mediterranean fired the imagination of Shakespeare, among many artists. From the Renaissance and Baroque to the seventeenth-century beginnings of English tourism - to the Aegean, Sicily and other destinations - Black examines the culture of the Mediterraean. He shows how English naval power grew, culminating in Nelson's famous victory over the French in the Battle of the Nile and the establishment of Gibraltar, Minorca and Malta as naval bases. Black explains the retreat of Islam in north Africa, describes the age of steam navigation and looks at how and why the British occupied Cyprus, Egypt and the Ionian Islands. He looks at the impact of the Suez Canal as a new sea route to India and how the Riviera became Europe's playground. He shows how the Mediterranean has been central to two World Wars, the Cold War and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. With its focus always on the Sea, the book looks at the fate of port cities particularly - Alexandria, Salonika and Naples.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
Author: A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description