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Title: Very, very complex subject
Review: Well, I liked this book and I didn't like it. The scope of the book is simply tremendous and perhaps another 1,000 pages would cover 80% of history, society, politics that has breathed in the area for 4,000+ years. Yes, I would enjoy reading an unabridged book about the Black Sea area. The current book is just too abridged for me. I sure did learn many things I did not know and found the author's travels mildly amusing, but the lack of more detailed maps of the regions around the Black Sea were lacking. I had to go to my Turkey Travel Guide (Insight Guide@)to locate some places mentioned or the general area of the referent. I do take some issue with the authors use of Scythians-different groups of, as opposed to a progression from Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, Sauromatiaion, Thracian, Ossetian, Alans, and so on. See Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Ph.D. and read her work. Would I buy this book again-You bet!
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