The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean is a book by the British historian David Abulafia. First published in 2011, it is a history of the Mediterranean Sea from 22,000 BC to the present time, and provides one of the most comprehensive treatments of the subject since the works of Fernand Braudel.
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| Author | David Abulafia |
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| Language | English |
| Published | 2011 by Allen Lane |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 816 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-713-99934-1 |
| OCLC | 689522197 |
The book has been critically acclaimed and received the Mountbatten Literary Award from the Maritime Foundation, and the British Academy Medal.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] It has so far been translated into Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic, Korean, German, Italian, Romanian and Portuguese.[13]
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