The Mediterranean
Subtitle: A Memoir Physical, Historical and Nautical
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: November 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9781402197031
Subjects: memoirs,correspondence,biography,letters,reminiscences,Mediterranean Sea; Science / Geography
First sentence: THE Mediterranean Sea, equally remarkable from its position in the midst of the most civilized nations, and its connexion with many memorable events in ancient and modern history, is that vast central gulf emphatically styled in the Sacred Scriptures the Great Sea; justly receiving that appellation, as being the largest assemblage of waters known to the earliest writers of those records: and indeed its importance was truly paramount among the ancients, as it was the grand key to both portions of the then known world.