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

Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece by Robert D. Kaplan is a travelogue combined with a history of parts of the Mediterranean. I actually would have preferred more travelogue and less history. He's obviously done some reading constantly dropping names throughout the text. It all seems somehow disjointed. Part of the problem is that this is actually based on several different trips to the region. Book contains a bibliography of works cited.

Kaplan's writing is interesting enough that I probably will try another one of his books but I'm not in a hurry.

Mildly recommended.

Is available through Abebooks.



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