The Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism by Neal Ascherson

The Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism

Neal Ascherson

306 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging informative slow-paced

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An acclaimed, award-winning book on a fascinating subject, recently revised and updated by the author, with a brand new jacket. The Black Sea is at once homage to an ocean and its shores, and an amazingly readable meditation on Eurasian history fr...

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