Mediterranean

by ErnleBradford (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $6.87

  For thousands of years men have sailed, traded and fought across the waters of the Mediterranean. On its shores and islands they have built cities, colonized, dreamed, conquered and fallen. This sea, which brings together three continents, has been the cradle of Western civilization. The Mediterranean became a Roman and Byzantine sea until displaced by the Arab and Turkish conquests which reached their apogee with the great siege of Malta in 1565; by the eighteenth century Europe again dominated with France and England in contention for sovereignty. The author continues the compelling story of trade and commerce, flora and fauna, war and peace to end of the Second World War in 1945.