All the Best in the Mediterranean

by Sydney Clark

Front Cover/Spine:

This is a neat old, vintage travel book. It covers thea rea of the Mediterranean. It contains a number of vintage black and whithe photographs. The book was published in 1952 by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York and is a copy of the second printing. The book measures 5 ¾ inches by 8 ¼ inches and contains x, 372 pages. The gray cloth cover is somewhat soiled. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The end pages have lovely pictorial maps. The pages show no signs of rips. The signature of a previous owner is inscribed on the half title page. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is good plus to near very good.


Title Page


Title Page - Verso

Note: The table of contents is quite extensive. I will list only main chapter headings.

Contents:

    The Foreground of the Picture
  1. Accent on Air
  2. Ships that Cross and Ships that Cruise
  3. A Swift Preview – in Twenty Shots
  4. Your Passport and its Visas
  5. The Burning Subject of Money
  6. In Case you Sleep and Eat
  7. Some Further Questions in the Foreground

    8. Yourself in the Picture

  8. Lisbon Introduction
  9. Barcelona and Fabulous Majorca
  10. Selections in Southern Spain
  11. Gibraltar and Tangier, Neighbors Across the Strait
  12. Cities and People of French Morocco
  13. Algeria, the Pride of France
  14. Tunis and Nine-Lived Carthage
  15. Coastal France – and Corsica
  16. Eight Hundred Miles of Italy – In Outline
  17. The Circuit of Sicily
  18. Dropping in on Malta
  19. Metropolitan Egypt
  20. The Egypt of Luxor, Karnak and Thebes
  21. Assouan, the Rock of Egypt
  22. Greece, Where the West was Born
  23. Hellenic Islands, Treasures of Poseidon
  24. The Little World of Cyprus
  25. Cities of Israel
  26. North to Dan; South to Beersheba and Elat
  27. Lebanon, Eighth Wonder of the Levant
  28. Damascus, “The Oldest City”
  29. Istanbul, Link of Two continents
  30. Two Towns of Anatolia
  31. Mediterranean Memories

    32. Index


Front End Pages


The snake charmer is a feature of many a Moroccan town. This one was photographed in the famous Place Djemaa-el-F’na of Marrakesh.

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Top: In Algiers old and new, East and West, offer plenty of contrasts. This is the busy Place du Government.

Bottom: The Promenade des Anglais, in Nice, is the heart of holiday on the French Riviera. Catering to mass travel, Nice still maintains its perennial elegance in hotels like the Negresco (electric sign).


Left: In Siena Italy’s most colorful pageant, Il Palio, occurs twice each year, on July 2 and August 16. This flag-bearer is one figure of hundreds in the great procession that precedes the exciting horse race around the central Piazza del Campo.

Right: This study in black and white is Bartolommeo Ammanati’s Neptune Fountain (1570) in the Piazza della Signoria, civic and art center of Florence. Fountains are a glory of Italy in many cities.


Top: This mountain of masonry is Valletta, the capital of Malta. Here the medieval Knights of Malta made history by their rugged resistance to Turkish power. After the Napoleonic wars the island chose Britain as its protector and today the Maltese people are deeply loyal British subjects, although their daily language is “Phoenician.”

Bottom: The most famous scene of the African Continent needs no caption. These wondrous monuments are but eight miles from Cairo.


Left: A scene of royal Cyprus. The strings of “beads” seen hanging beside the house are nuts dipped repeatedly in sugar syrup until they look like so many grapes.

Top Right: A view of the Jewish part of divided Jerusalem, not the seat of Israel’s Knesset (Parliament). It is a striking all-stone city, for by law every building must be built of limestone, or at least faced with it.

Bottom Right: A few years ago there was hardly a tree in the territory that is now Israel. Forestation is one of the many projects being pushed by the new state. In the nursery show here tens of thousands of Jerusalem pines are being prepared for transplanting.


The so-called Mosque of Istanbul (from the blue faience of the interior) is famous for its six minarets, one of which Is not seen in this view. The sky line of the Turkish metropolis, with dozens of monumental “pencils” pointing aloft, is uniquely dramatic.


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