Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese
by Robert D. Kaplan

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In the winter of 1975, long before he became one of the most astute observers of the world today, Robert D Kaplan began a bare bones trip around the ancient lands that border the Mediterranean. Beginning in Tunisia and ending in Greece, this record of his journey is a marvel of recollection and interpretation, enriched by learned accounts of the near and distant pasts.
In Tunis Kaplan revisits the history of Carthage, rival to Rome, whose conquering legions ploughed its ground with salt. In Sicily he meditates on the failed Athenian invasion that seemed to forecast America's entanglement in Vietnam. Elsewhere his intelligence alights on St Augustine, Caravaggio and the Emperor Hadrian; the rise of Islam; and the collapse of communism. Mediterranean Winter is a beautifully written travel memoir, simultaneously thoughtful and intoxicating, and Kaplan's most personal book to date.

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ISBN-10:	0375714332
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780375714337
Author:	Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher:	Vintage New York
Publication Date:	2004
Pages:	254 pp
Size/Dimensions:	8 x 5
Binding:	Paperback