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Article: The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean. John Julius Norwich. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]25.00. xviii + 667 pages. ISBN 978-0-701-17608-2. Lord Norwich likes to tackle large subjects--Byzantine Venice, and the Normans in southern Europe--and here he tackles nothing less than the Mediterranean, or rather, those nations and peoples that have lived on its shores and crossed its waters. He is particularly interested in how the countries bordering the Mediterranean were influenced by their geographic position. He begins with ancient Egypt and moves chronologically as ...