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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,349 ratings — published 2011
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,805 ratings — published 2008
The Pillars of Hercules (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,132 ratings — published 1995
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,171,276 ratings — published -700
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.15 — 155,902 ratings — published 2021
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,310,061 ratings — published 2018
The Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.01 — 45,830 ratings — published 1958
Memory and the Mediterranean (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.17 — 599 ratings — published 1998
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,917,365 ratings — published 2011
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,094 ratings — published 2006
This Rough Magic (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,473 ratings — published 1964
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,307 ratings — published 1949
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,210 ratings — published 2011
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,057 ratings — published 2015
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.05 — 452,193 ratings — published 2011
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,655 ratings — published 1956
Corelli’s Mandolin (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.03 — 92,233 ratings — published 1994
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,005,402 ratings — published 1846
Zorba the Greek (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.03 — 57,638 ratings — published 1946
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
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.26 — 157,148 ratings — published 2017
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,412 ratings — published -19
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,611 ratings — published 2003
The Rocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.17 — 9,311 ratings — published 2014
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.93 — 501,559 ratings — published -800
The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.23 — 176 ratings — published 2013
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,025 ratings — published -430
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,043 ratings — published 2005
The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen: Recipes for the Passionate Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.16 — 326 ratings — published 1994
Jerusalem: A Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.20 — 35,528 ratings — published 2012
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,634 ratings — published 2011
Imperium (Cicero, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,242 ratings — published 2006
Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.89 — 41,958 ratings — published 1992
Silk (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.85 — 72,319 ratings — published 1996
The Bastard of Istanbul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.88 — 63,066 ratings — published 2006
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,336 ratings — published 2014
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.00 — 82,349 ratings — published 1989
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.02 — 109,776 ratings — published 1979
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,159 ratings — published 1969
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.22 — 35,104 ratings — published 1951
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,361 ratings — published 1934
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,415 ratings — published 1956
Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.63 — 603 ratings — published 2010
A Book of Mediterranean Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.18 — 408 ratings — published 1950
Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia and the Peloponnese (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.91 — 367 ratings — published 2004
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,350,767 ratings — published 1942
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.89 — 431,625 ratings — published 1603
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mediterranean)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,798 ratings — published 1953
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 — 6,000 ratings — published 2021
“He peeled the towel that imprisoned us away and let it fall. I felt it slide softly off my backside, and I felt, too, his rising excite¬ment, hard, erect, pressing against me.
My nipples were erect, straining, aching, pressed against his strong warm damp chest, the tangle and pattern of his hair. He was a beast, an animal. My excitement was rising again, to match his. It was as if my heart were about to burst or to flip flop, breathless, into a dark abyss.
“Of course, you are crazy, my darling, but, then, so am I.” He kissed me and his oh-so-clever hands seized my waist, tighten¬ing, and then sneaking up my backside, pulling me, pressing me closer, into him. He kissed me again, and his lips moved down my neck to my shoulder and then to my breasts.
“Oh,” I said, “Oh.”
He bent over me, kissing my collarbone and then my breasts, carefully, slowly, his hands traveling down my back, and over my backside; suddenly, he was on his knees, kissing the whorl of 101
my belly button; then he was forcing me open, gently, gently, his tongue exploring caressing, devouring …
“Oh …” I exhaled a deep, shuddering breath. I tipped on the very edge. He bit me, gently. Oooooh!
He pulled in the reins, the bit and bridle, of the frisky frothing filly that I had become; this sudden halt made me wilder, crazier; then, once again, he brought me, trembling, up to the very, very edge of the cliff – of orgasm, of loss of self.
Then he pulled me back. I blinked and trembled. Around the two of us, there was a whole world, a whole universe. It seemed too vivid to be real, like the backdrop in an opera. Venus was brighter and lower now. The sky had turned deep indigo. One by one, stars appeared.”
― The Shaming of Gwendoline C
My nipples were erect, straining, aching, pressed against his strong warm damp chest, the tangle and pattern of his hair. He was a beast, an animal. My excitement was rising again, to match his. It was as if my heart were about to burst or to flip flop, breathless, into a dark abyss.
“Of course, you are crazy, my darling, but, then, so am I.” He kissed me and his oh-so-clever hands seized my waist, tighten¬ing, and then sneaking up my backside, pulling me, pressing me closer, into him. He kissed me again, and his lips moved down my neck to my shoulder and then to my breasts.
“Oh,” I said, “Oh.”
He bent over me, kissing my collarbone and then my breasts, carefully, slowly, his hands traveling down my back, and over my backside; suddenly, he was on his knees, kissing the whorl of 101
my belly button; then he was forcing me open, gently, gently, his tongue exploring caressing, devouring …
“Oh …” I exhaled a deep, shuddering breath. I tipped on the very edge. He bit me, gently. Oooooh!
He pulled in the reins, the bit and bridle, of the frisky frothing filly that I had become; this sudden halt made me wilder, crazier; then, once again, he brought me, trembling, up to the very, very edge of the cliff – of orgasm, of loss of self.
Then he pulled me back. I blinked and trembled. Around the two of us, there was a whole world, a whole universe. It seemed too vivid to be real, like the backdrop in an opera. Venus was brighter and lower now. The sky had turned deep indigo. One by one, stars appeared.”
― The Shaming of Gwendoline C
“Newcomers to manuscripts sometimes ask what such books tell us about the societies that created them. At one level, these Gospel Books describe nothing, for they are not local chronicles but standard Latin translations of religious texts from far away. At the same time, this is itself extraordinarily revealing about Ireland. No one knows how literacy and Christianity had first reached the islands of Ireland, possibly through North Africa. This was clearly no primitive backwater but a civilization which could now read Latin, although never occupied by the Romans, and which was somehow familiar with the texts and artistic designs which have unambiguous parallels in the Coptic and Greek churches, such as carpet pages and Canon tables. Although the Book of Kells itself is as uniquely Irish as anything imaginable, it is a Mediterranean text and the pigments used in making it include orpiment, a yellow made from arsenic sulphide, exported from Italy, where it is found in volcanoes. There are clearly lines of trade and communication unknown to us.”
― Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
― Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
