5 LEMUR THE FIFTH THE MEDITERRANEAN (SAMIA, 6 years old)
- What’s your name?
- Sonja.
- What kind of name is that?
- Italian.
- And you’re Italian?
- Not yet, but I will be when we get there.
- All right, when we get there. But what was your name before, back at home?
- Samia.
- Well, that’s a nice name.
- I don’t like it.
- Sonja, are you afraid of water?
- Not really.
- Do you think I wouldn’t dare to jump?
Five thousand two hundred and sixty meters deep, between five and twelve million years old, forty-six thousand kilometers of seashore, an area of twenty-five million square kilometers, known as the Great Sea in the Bible, or simply the Sea.
The centre of the old world, surrounded today by twenty-one countries: Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and
