The Night Will Have Its Say

How often do we take nature for granted, assuming it will never vanish? In US-based folk illustrator Dinara Mirtalipova’s new children’s book, a sea is the main character: the one that provides livelihood and prosperity, until humans’ poor choices cause its demise.

Author Vadim S. Jigoulov’s The Phoenicians reveals that Phoenicia’s seafaring city-states bound the Mediterranean world via trade rather than conquest.