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On the Shores of the Mediterranean (Lonely Planet Journeys) (Paperback)

by Eric Newby (Author)
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  • Paperback: 501 pages
  • Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; Us edition (1 Oct 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0864426216
  • ISBN-13: 978-0864426215
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,049,204 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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As they travel around the sea at the center of Western history, Eric Newby and his wife Wanda visit not only the better-known Mediterranean sights and cities but also venture into places where Westerners are few: Albania under Hoxha, the holy Muslim city of Fez, and a country about to disappear in civil war - the former Yugoslavia. Eric Newby entertains and enlightens as he follows in the footsteps of Cleopatra and St John, and waits for a meeting with Colonel Gaddafi. With his customary flair for description, he is equally at easy pondering King David's choice of Jerusalem as the site for a capital city or enjoying a meal cooked by one of France's finest chefs. His acute curiosity and encyclopedic knowledge combine to make absorbing reading, whether he is explaining the workings of a defunct Turkish harem or the contemporary Mafia. From antiquity to the present, Eric Newby's erudite, engaging tale is not a simple tour but a "tour de force."

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4.0 out of 5 stars On the road to ruins with Eric and Wanda, 21 Nov 2002
By Joseph Haschka (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On the Shores of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Eric Newby is a serious travel essayist for serious travelers. A consummate pro. ON THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, originally published in 1984, is his chronicle of a resolute journey around the circumference of the Mediterranean, an arduous tour of ancient cities, ruins and near ruins that would have surely daunted a lesser man. Beginning at his home in Tuscany, he shepherds the reader along to Naples, Venice, Montenegro, Albania, Mt. Olympus (in Greece), Istanbul, Turkey's Mediterranean shore (the Troad), Jerusalem, the Pyramids, Tobruk (in Libya), Tunisia, Fez (in Morocco), Gibraltar, Seville (in Spain), and Nice (on the Côte d' Azur). After 484 pages (in paperback) of relatively small print, I collapsed exhausted.

Newby has an exceptional eye for detail and history, which can provide either joy or torment to the armchair traveler. SHORES accomplishes both. He's at his very best when describing the Harem at Topkapi (in Istanbul), the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (in Jerusalem), the nightmare (and somewhat comic) bus ride from Tripoli to Tunis, and the Moroccan city of Fez. His very worst had to be the chapter dedicated to Holy Week in Seville, a migraine-inducing and seemingly endless enumeration of processions, floats, statues and religious brotherhoods involved in the Roman Catholic celebration of this yearly festivity. Enough already, for cryin' out loud! (And I was born and raised Catholic, even!) The fact that Eric has an unfortunate penchant for constructing looooooong sentences, sometimes in excess of 100 words, doesn't help.

The biggest disappointments of this otherwise laudable book were two. First, because of conflict in the city, he didn't visit Beirut, Lebanon. Second, too infrequent mention was made of his long-suffering travel companion and wife, Wanda, who would occasionally contribute a pointed remark about the latest fine mess that husband Eric had gotten them into. I liked Wanda a lot.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An extremely interesting and occasionally amusing read., 11 Jun 2001
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This review is from: On the Shores of the Mediterranean (Picador Books) (Paperback)
This is the first Eric Newby book I'd ever read, but will certainly be buying more. This is the saga of his travels with his wife around the Mediterranean (as the title states !). Setting off from their small house in Tuscany they travel clockwise along the shores of the Mediterranean, through the Balkans, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Gibraltar, Spain, France and back to Tuscany. He paints vivid, colourful pictures of their experiences and encounters, adding a generous background of history, both ancient and modern which serves to 'fill out' the picture even more so that the reader could almost feel that they are actually there with the Newbys. This book is a 'must' for both armchair travellers and real travellers, as although it was written in the 1980s, would still provide useful tips on how to deal (or how not to deal!) with a variety of situations. Altogether a thoroughly enjoyable book.
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