"A beautifully written meditation on nationality, colonialism, nomadism and the settled life, which goes back to the beginning of the human world and traces the fortunes of the Aegean and Mediterranean traders who squeezed up through the Bosporus to do business with the steppe societies of the huge Black Sea hinterland."-Karl Miller, San Francisco Review of Books
"To say it at once: this is a superb book, beautifully written, evocative, learned, and deeply subtle."-Timothy Garton Ash, The Times Literary Supplement "History and time and place flow together superb, encompassing story of the Black Sea region."-Mary Lee Settle, Los Angeles Times Ascherson's portrait of a place whose chief characteristic is the durability of its many ethnic identities comes at the right moment."-Richard Bernstein, The New York Times With ethnic conflicts much in the headlines, Mr.
rich both in historical data and in interpretation.
"A searching examination of the lands that ring the Black Sea and that were the scenes of some of the most ancient multicultural experiences of human history.
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