- 1987 edition. 240 pages
- Published by Book Club Associates
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue boards.
- Very good condition. Minor shelf wear.
The Mediterranean World and Man. Illustrated and Indexed.
No Sea in the world can have had a more dramatic birth than the Mediterranean. Five and a half million years ago, the waters of the Atlantic flooded across a barrier of land connecting Morocco and Gibraltar and plunged over a cliff fifty times the height of Niagara into a vast empty trench in the earth's crust. This astounding cataract continued to fall for a century or so until at last the basin was filled and the Mediterranean Sea had been formed.
When human beings first arrived on its shores, some three million years later, they found rich forests filled with game. For thousands of years, they lived as wandering hunters until, around ten thousand years ago, tribes living around the eastern end of the Sea discovered ways of taming cattle and cultivating plants. So began a process which was to transform the whole are and ultimately the world.
In this book, David Attenborough not only describes the natural history of the Mediterranean, but also tells the fascinating story of mankind's changing attitudes to the natural world, and so gives a new insight into the communities of animals and plants that live today in this lovely Sea and the lands around it.
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