The Liquid Continent - Volume I - Alexandria

£12.99

In his “Liquid Continent” trilogy, Nicholas Woodsworth combines travel narrative, history and reflection of the essence of life in the Mediterranean.

Beginning in Alexandria, the author travels overland around the eastern rim of the sea. Behind the spread of modern apartment blocks , he encounters an older, sophisticated existence - the city of Cleopatra; the city where renowned mathematicians corresponded with the Greek Archimedes and where great scholars such as Eratosthenes, a lover of all knowledge who was appointed by the Ptolemies as Chief Librarian, turned geography into the rational study it is today.

This fluid and lively account unravels a mythic city whose grand historical reputation has sustained it through the ages, even if physically it has changed beyond recognition.