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Mediterranean Books
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,409 ratings — published 2011
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,003 ratings — published 2008
The Pillars of Hercules (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,199 ratings — published 1995
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,215,447 ratings — published -800
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.15 — 174,158 ratings — published 2021
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,394,134 ratings — published 2018
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,345 ratings — published 1949
Memory and the Mediterranean (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.17 — 612 ratings — published 1998
The Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.01 — 48,600 ratings — published 1958
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,067,603 ratings — published 2011
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,120 ratings — published 2006
This Rough Magic (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,672 ratings — published 1964
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.05 — 84,035 ratings — published 2015
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,411 ratings — published 2011
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.05 — 485,566 ratings — published 2011
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,685 ratings — published 1956
Corelli’s Mandolin (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,371 ratings — published 1994
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,045,880 ratings — published 1844
Zorba the Greek (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.02 — 59,742 ratings — published 1946
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,923 ratings — published 1953
how to Succeed in your Business Model: A Step-by-Step Guide to Take your business to the next level (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.96 — 23 ratings — published
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,815 ratings — published 2011
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,295 ratings — published 2014
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,656 ratings — published 2003
The Rocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.17 — 9,367 ratings — published 2014
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.93 — 519,747 ratings — published -800
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,325 ratings — published -430
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,624 ratings — published 1956
The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen: Recipes for the Passionate Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.14 — 328 ratings — published 1994
Jerusalem: A Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.19 — 36,819 ratings — published 2012
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.45 — 607 ratings — published 1949
Imperium (Cicero, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.14 — 42,026 ratings — published 2006
Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,347 ratings — published 1992
Silk (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.85 — 77,607 ratings — published 1996
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.25 — 168,929 ratings — published 2017
The Bastard of Istanbul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.88 — 66,191 ratings — published 2006
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,602 ratings — published -19
The Great Siege: Malta 1565 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,870 ratings — published 1964
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,457 ratings — published 1969
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.21 — 36,935 ratings — published 1951
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,386 ratings — published 2005
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.24 — 73,993 ratings — published 1934
Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.64 — 615 ratings — published 2010
Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia and the Peloponnese (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.90 — 391 ratings — published 2004
The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.09 — 110 ratings — published 2000
El color de la Alegria (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.95 — 20 ratings — published
Nights of Plague (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,315 ratings — published 2021
Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege, 1940 - 43 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.36 — 938 ratings — published 2003
A Room with a View (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.89 — 204,270 ratings — published 1908
Three Summers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,164 ratings — published 1946
“And then I realize: this isn’t dirty water falling from the sky.
It is—literally—blood.
I look up, and a droplet of blood splashes directly into my eye. I curse, rubbing my face, trying to get the blood out, but it’s everywhere, it’s like trying to dry off in the middle of the ocean. Shielding my face as best I can, I stare up into the sky.
I am in the center of a cyclone.
Giant white clouds swirl like a spiraling galaxy above me, the eye a tiny dark speck. The storm rages, throwing out bloody rain like punches, the wind so vicious it tears my clothes and cuts my skin.
Representative Belles’s mind is swirling with dark thoughts—bloody thoughts—and they have created the biggest storm I have ever seen.
I have to stop the cyclone. I have to get him into a peaceful reverie, something that he can hold on to while I root around his brain, looking for answers.
I focus all of my concentration on stopping the bloody rain. The drops come slower and slower. I take a deep breath, imagining the clouds breaking up, spinning into fluffy bits of cotton-candy like clouds. I don’t open my eyes until the sounds of beating rain disappear and I can feel the warmth of the Mediterranean sun on my face.”
― The Body Electric
It is—literally—blood.
I look up, and a droplet of blood splashes directly into my eye. I curse, rubbing my face, trying to get the blood out, but it’s everywhere, it’s like trying to dry off in the middle of the ocean. Shielding my face as best I can, I stare up into the sky.
I am in the center of a cyclone.
Giant white clouds swirl like a spiraling galaxy above me, the eye a tiny dark speck. The storm rages, throwing out bloody rain like punches, the wind so vicious it tears my clothes and cuts my skin.
Representative Belles’s mind is swirling with dark thoughts—bloody thoughts—and they have created the biggest storm I have ever seen.
I have to stop the cyclone. I have to get him into a peaceful reverie, something that he can hold on to while I root around his brain, looking for answers.
I focus all of my concentration on stopping the bloody rain. The drops come slower and slower. I take a deep breath, imagining the clouds breaking up, spinning into fluffy bits of cotton-candy like clouds. I don’t open my eyes until the sounds of beating rain disappear and I can feel the warmth of the Mediterranean sun on my face.”
― The Body Electric
“Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It's fairly sexy. Of course I don't know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don't burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247)”
― Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
― Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
