UK Postage £3.40 Airmail to Rest of the World £20.00 (except the EU, where we no longer export due to slow and lost deliveries, and excessive and unpredictable charges since Brexit) We only use airmail as surface mail can take up to 10 weeks. It may be the ecological story, and not the human, which proves the final tragedy. He ends this thoughtful book with the physical state of the Black Sea the beluga, anchovy, sturgeon and dolphins, which once abounded, have fallen to record lows. Ascherson combines a personal narrative with a historian's insight, in a lyrical and philosophical examination of the place where 'civilisation' met 'barbarism' trader encountered nomad, and different worlds collided. 'Like the terminal moraine of a glacier, the Black Sea shore is a place where the detritus of human migrations and invasions has been deposited for more than four thousand years'. British journalist Ascherson's fascination with the Black Sea was fired by his father, who was present as a midshipman when the Royal Navy evacuated the defeated White Russian Army from Novorossisk. 16 pages of colour and black & white illustrations. Travelogue, historical detail, and shrewd comment on contemporary nationalism combine in this brilliant and witty account of an area that has seen civilizations come and go for nearly 3,000 years.
Three-quarter-bound in buckram with a Modigliani paper side.
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