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Mediterranean Winter: A Journey Through History

Mediterranean Winter: A Journey Through History

by R.D. Kaplan (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

"Mediterranean Winter" is a lyrical account of Robert Kaplan's journey in the off season around the Mediterranean, retracing the footsteps of his youth. A beautifully written meditation on the golden age of travel and the pleasures of history, it takes us from Tunisia, once proud Carthage, rival to Rome, through Sicily, up the Dalmatian coast and into Greece. "Mediterranean Winter" is alive with the spirits of the past, from Hadrian and Homer to Hannibal and Ibn Khaldun, and closes with a fascinating pilgrimage to Patrick Leigh Fermor, whom Kaplan visits in his hideaway on the Aegean.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Published: 02 Feb 2006
ISBN 10: 0099484404
ISBN 13: 9780099484400
Book Overview: A beautifully written travel memoir steeped in history by one of America's leading travel writers, author of the landmark international bestseller Balkan Ghosts 20040922

Media Reviews
* 'Kaplan's act of literary pilgrimage is a fitting climax to a book that treats reading as an adjunct of tourism or as the author puts it, a way of dissecting the surrounding landscape and my own motivations for being there' - The Financial Times * 'Fascinating... It is as though you are on a holiday with a fabulously well-informed tour guide.' - Guardian * 'A writer of extraordinary intellect and passion - with a wonderfully lucid way of relating history as a living thing.' - San Francisco Chronicle
Author Bio
Robert D. Kaplan is widely regarded as one of America's leading travel writers and is also a highly influential writer on foreign affairs. He is the author of Balkan Ghosts, a landmark international bestseller translated into a dozen languages, The Ends of the Earth, and Eastward to Tartary, among other bestselling books.