Product Description

The Mediterranean, its ports and islands--a practical guide for independent travelers using boats and ferries. This is an entirely new kind of guide based not on countries but on a sea, its islands and the places the routes across it connect to. What we have done is to look at the Mediterranean in a more exceptional way. Instead of the cobbled together collections of melted down country guides that usually pass for Mediterranean guide books, we've treated the place first and foremost as what it is--a sea.
Includes all Mediterranean countries with ferry connections: Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain, Gibraltar, France, Italy, Croatia, Albania, Malta. Route plans, ferry timetables, historical background, places to stay, and places to eat are featured for all budgets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #554549 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

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"Excellent handbooks" --The Bookseller (UK)
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From the Back Cover
This is an entirely new kind of guide based not on countries but on a sea, its islands and the places the routes across it connect to. What we have done is to look at the Mediterranean in a more exceptional way. Instead of the cobbled together collections of melted down country guides that usually pass for Mediterranean guide books, we've treated the place first and foremost as what it is - a sea.

Following the ferry routes across this watery world turns out to be a good way to do this. It also seems to help remake a lot of lost connections - the links between places and people and ideas that have often been buried or obscured by plane travel and tourism.

· Includes all countries with ferry connections: Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain, Gibraltar, France, Italy, Croatia, Albania, Malta
· Getting to the Med from North America and other parts of Europe
· Planning your routes
· Route guides: The Aegean, The Eastern Mediterranean, The Adriatic, The Tyrrenhian, The Western Mediterranean
· Places to stay and places to eat - for all budgets
· History and culture
· What to see
· Useful words and phrases

Customer Reviews

Cruising the Mediterranean
I found this book quite by luck, hoping the title would truly indicate its contents. I have been wanting to plan a trip of travel across the Mediterranean from port to port, and this book is a splendid start for such a venture. Also, it is sufficiently rigorous and detailed-- probably because the author is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.