Author: Fernand Braudel
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: mediterranean, volume, world, philip
Number of Pages: 725
Published: 1996-07-16
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520203305
ISBN-13: 9780520203303

The focus of Fernand Braudel’s great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel’s scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.

Author: Larry H. Ludmer
Publisher: Hunter Publishing
Keywords: mediterranean, crusing, ports, guide, cruising
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1588432858
ISBN-13: 9781588432858

A concise guide for cruisers, with ship details given in easy-to-read format and no-nonsense descriptions of ports en route. You can see at a glance the itinerary, passenger/crew ratio, dining options, berth layout and capacity. Ludmer profiles the shore excursions thoroughly. He points out what you can afford to miss and what you should make every effort to see. Major ports covered are: Lisbon, Gibraltar, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Monte Carlo, Livorno/Pisa, Rome, Naples, Venice, Athens, Malta, Istanbul.

Author: Fernand Braudel
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: mediterranean, vol, world, philip
Number of Pages: 642
Published: 1996-07-16
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520203089
ISBN-13: 9780520203082

The focus of Fernand Braudel’s great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel’s scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.

Author: Anne Vipond
Publisher: Ocean Cruise Guide
Keywords: mediterranean, giant, color, map, cruising, guide, cruise, ship, complete
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0968838995
ISBN-13: 9780968838990

Mediterranean By Cruise Ship, the complete guide to cruising the Mediterranean. Comes with Giant pull-out color map. Covers all itineraries with port maps showing exactly where the cruise ships dock. Includes walking tour information, attractions and getting around detail. Color photographs and maps throughout.

Author: Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: mediterranean, mediaeval, medieval, antiquities, building, past, monumental, present, marble
Number of Pages: 634
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $254.00
ISBN-10: 9004170839
ISBN-13: 9789004170834

This is a broad survey of the various structural and decorative uses of marble and antiquities throughout the Mediterranean during the Millennium following the Emperor Constantine. The heavy footprint of Roman civic and religious architecture helped provide attractive and luxurious building materials, re-used to construct diverse and often sophisticated monuments. The book argues that marble-rich sites and cities around this lake were linked at various times and in varying degrees by trade, pilgrimage, war and diplomacy, as well as by the imperatives of religion - Venice to Alexandria, Damascu

Author: Clifford A. Wright
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbook
Keywords: mediterranean, venice, barbary, corsairs, recipes, merchants, cuisines, feast, story, birth, celebrated
Number of Pages: 840
Published: 1999-11-03
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0688153054
ISBN-13: 9780688153052

To answer the question, "What does Mediterranean mean and what is Mediterranean food" in The Mediterranean Feast, Clifford Wright delves into not merely history, but also agronomy, economics, geography, and more. He dedicates this monumental synthesis of the influences that eventually produced Mediterranean food as we know it to "the philosophers and the cooks." Fortunately, when it seems the intellectuals have taken over completely, one comes on Wright’s lyrical description of eating a cassoulet, the golden-crusted, complex French bean stew, and other passages proving that Wright’

Author: Larry H. Ludmer
Publisher: Hunter Publishing (NJ)
Keywords: mediterranean, cruising, ports, guide, travel, hunter, guides
Number of Pages: 341
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1588435865
ISBN-13: 9781588435866

This is a thorough update for this cruising season, with extensive details on every vessel travelling in the Med. The author, a cruising veteran, covers all facts from level of service, cabin size, decor and layout, to ship amenities, passenger/crew ratio and dining options. Sailing routes are reviewed candidly, and the pitfalls and bonuses of each are given, making you an educated cruise traveller. Port profiles are tailored to the cruising visitor - taxi tours, dockside phones, the best shops, plus a list of operators who are familiar with cruise schedules and will get you back to your ship