For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity here decisively shaped much of the course of world history. David Abulafia's *The Great Sea* is th
The boundless sea: a human history of the oceans
โ Scribed by David Abulafia
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0141972092
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