!!Professor David Abulafia awarded the Mountbatten Literary Award

[{Image src='abulafia_david_book_cover.jpg' caption='' height='300' alt='The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean' class='image_left'}]Professor David Abulafia was awarded the Mountbatten Literary Award by the Maritime Foundation for his book ''The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean'' (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2011).
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See [here|http://www.bmcf.org.uk/awards/mountbatten-maritime-award] for more details.