Review from previous edition both scholarly and enjoyable.

• 1. An Archaeology of Place ; People and Water ; Region, Frontier, Nation ; Beginnings ; Geography and Ecology ; 2. Pontus Euxinus, 700BC - AD400 ; The Edge of the World ; "Frogs Around a Pond" ; "A Community of Race" ; How a Scythian Saved Civilization ; The Voyage of Argo ; "More Barbarous Than Ourselves" ; Pontus and Rome ; Dacia Traiana ; The Expedition of Flavius Arrianus ; The Prophet of Abonoteichus ; 3. Mare Maggiore, 400 - 1460 ; "The Scythian Nations Are One" ; Sea-Fire ; Khazars, Rhos, Bulgars, and Turks ; Business in Gazaria ; Pax Mongolica ; The Ship from Caffa ; Empire of the Comneni ; Turchia ; An Ambassador from the East ; 4. Kara Deniz, 1500 - 1700 ; "The Source of All the Seas" ; "To Constantinople - to be sold!" ; Domn, Khan, and Derebey ; Sailors' Graffiti ; A Navy of Seagulls ; 5. Chernoe More, 1700 - 1860 ; Sea and Steppe ; A Flotilla on Azov ; Cleopatra Processes South ; The Flight of the Kalmoucks ; A Season in Kherson ; Rear Admiral Dzhons ; New Russia ; Fever, Ague, and Lazaretto ; A Consul in Trabzon ; Crimea ; 6. Black Sea, 1860 - 1990 ; Empires, States, and Treaties ; Steam, Wheat, Rail, and Oil ; "An Ignoble Army of Scribbling Visitors" ; Trouble on the Kostence Line ; The Unpeopling ; "The Division of the Waters" ; Knowing the Sea ; The Prometheans ; Development and Decline ; 7. Facing the War ; Bibliography