Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals Of The Mediterranean Katherine Pangonis Weidenfeld Nicolson Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

Winner Of The 2024 Somerset Maugham Awardits Name Means \ Centre World\ And Since Dawn History Mediterranean Sea Has Formed Shared Horizon Innumerable Cultures Here Blurred With Legend Glittering Surface Conceals Remnants Lost Civilisations Wrecked Treasure Ships Bones Long-Drowned Sailors Traders Modern Refugees Many Cities That Dot This Ancient Coastline Tyre Carthage Syracuse Ravenna Antioch Are Among Oldest Most Intriguing All Beautifully Situated For Layers Cultural Riches They Rivalled Only By Their Sister Rome Istanbul Jerusalem Yet Fates Have Been Remarkably Different Once Major Power Centres Five Declined Into Relative Obscurity Nevertheless Entwined Takes In Alexander Great Nebuchadnezzar Archimedes Roman Byzantine Arab Norman Conquests Greatness Still Lingers Those Who Seek It Out To Bring These Mysterious Capitals Life Historian Katherine Pangonis Sets On A Voyage From Civilisation Lebanese Coast Modern-Day Turkey Wracked Devastation 2023 Earthquake Combining Ground Research Spellbinding Storytelling Skills Is Revelatory New Story Powerful Reflection Sometimes Fleeting Glory Empires Σελίδες: 288 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0709 Διαστάσεις: 12 8X12 8Cm