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Frommer's Greece
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John S Bowman, Sherry Marker, Heidi Sarna
This serves as the premier travel guide to the site of the 2004 Summer Games. It includes a special section devoted to the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Greece is the fifteenth-most popular tourist destination in the world. New construction in anticipation of the 2004 Olympics will mean better transportation and other improved tourist infrastructure. ...
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Greece Athens & the Mainland
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Marc Dubin (Consultant editor)
Highly pictorial, these Eyewitness Travel Guides are now offered in a tenth anniversary edition, with all the information savvy travelers need to know.
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The Rough Guide to Cyprus
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Marc Dubin
"The Rough Guide to Cyprus" explores every corner of this Mediterranean paradise, from the fine, sandy beaches and wooded hillsides to the ancient churches and buzzing bars. The guide is fully up-dated taking in the island's entry into the EU with new colour sections offering a guide to Cyprus' hearty traditional cuisine and its rich artistic and ...
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Lonely Planet Greece
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Paul Hellander, Kate Armstrong, Michael Clark
Part of the Lonely Planet Country Guide Series. A best-selling guide for independent travellers to Greece and explores local entertainment and eateries.
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Frommer's(r) Greek Islands
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John Bowman
You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series ...
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The Greek Islands
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Lawrence Durrell
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This is Greece
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Miroslav Sasek
A pictorial tour of the country presenting drawings of historic buildings and monuments.
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Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
A book about Greece, where he finally settled down, by the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor.
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Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece
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Patricia Storace
Patricia Storace has visited the noisy cities, the serene little towns, and the idyllic harbors of Greece, and has written a unique travel book that evokes their social mores and religious rites. She also speculates about the ways that the ancient and modern worlds of Greece continue to intersect.
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The Greek islands
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Marc Dubin (Consultant editor)
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Strolling Through Athens: Fourteen Unforgettable Walks Through Europe's Oldest City
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Professor John Freely
In the Eastern world carpets and rugs have traditionally been used for prayer, shelter, the transportation of goods, and of course for comfort and decoration. The aim of this book is to enable readers to understand the decorative and technical features of oriental carpets by helping them to identify and classify carpets via their geographic ...
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Fodor's Greek Islands: With the Best of Athens
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Robert I C Fisher (Editor), Carissa Bluestone (Editor), Diana Varvara (Editor)
This new book gives a thorough overview of the best islands Greece has to offer, as well as full coverage of Athens and the major mainland ports. Eight-page color insert.
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Greece: A Love Story: Women Write about the Greek Experience
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Camille Cusumano (Editor)
Greece, it has been said, is where art became inseparable from life. The country evokes a richly embroidered tapestry of images, from old monuments rife with history to idyllic isles of glass-blue sea and blinding white stucco dwellings. Greece enchants its visitors with its beauty, tradition, and spirit. In this eloquent collection, women ...
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Crete
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Barry Unsworth
Veteran novelist Barry Unsworth went with his wife to Crete and writes about the experience--paradoxically bemoaning the huge tourist industry that has invaded the island. He also writes about Cretan history, flora and fauna, mythology, and--not least--its people, both past and present.
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Lonely Planet Greece
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David Willett
Embraces unusual attractions like the rock forests of Meteora, Samothraki's sanctuary of the great gods and the tower settlement of the Mani. Special section on the art and architecture of Greece and offers a fascinating insight into contemporary Greek culture. Guide to island hopping with clear, up-to-date ferry information.
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Dinner with Persephone
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Patricia Storace
This volume explores the complicated relationship betwee the idea of classical Greece and the messy, Mediterranean reality of a country unsure of its place in the world. Modern Greece is the strangest nation in Europe, insisting on its privileged place as the "cradle of democracy", while offering a less-than-perfect form of democracy to its own ...
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Salamina
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Rockwell Kent
First published in 1935, "Salamina" details artist and adventurer Rockwell Kent's second trip to Greenland. It unfolds as a series of vignettes, each illustrated with Kent's bold drawings. He acquaints us with the land and its people with accounts of fishing trips, festivities and friendships.
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A House in Corfu: A Family's Sojourn in Greece
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Emma Tennant
A "resident-tourist" describes the texture of life on Corfu through the lens of her parents' slowly-built house.
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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Located at the heart of Europe's southernmost promontory, the Mani is one of the wildest, most isolated regions in Greece. In this fascinating book, Fermor bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to unfurl "the green and gold and gentle shades" of this undisturbed landscape.
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Knopf Mapguide London
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Knopf Guides (Creator)
This opening fold-out contains a general map of London to help you visualize the 8 large districts discussed in this guide, and 4 pages of valuable information, handy tips and useful addresses. Discover London through 8 districts and 8 maps Westminster/ Whitehall Covent Garden/ Soho/ Bloomsbury City/ St Paul’s Southwark/ Tower Bridge ...
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Insight Guides Greek Islands
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Jeffrey Pike (Editor)
This 356-page guidebook to the Greek Islands presents the region's highlights in a comprehensive format, illustrated with hundreds of full-colour photographs and 14 maps, and packed with essential travel tips. The key features include: Places - region-by-region gazetteer section, with top attractions highlighted and cross-referenced with detailed ...
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Greece: Athens & the Mainland
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Deni Bown
These truly are the books that show you what others only tell you. Each guide is a fully illustrated delight highlighting every significant sight, location, building, museum, and gallery. Cutaway artworks and full-color 3-D maps combine with beautiful photography to reveal the essential elements of an area, whether it is the bustling streets of ...
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The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe 500-1453
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Dimitri Obolensky
Throughout much of the Middle Ages, the lands of Eastern Europe (the Balkans, Russia, Romania and the lands on either side of the middle Danube) lay within the orbit of Byzantine political and cultural influence, and in turn formed a major preoccupation of the Empire. This is a comprehensive historical account of the relations - political, ...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ancient Greece
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Susan K Allard Nelson, Eric D Nelson, PH D Nelson
"A modern examination of the ancient world." The incredible influence of Ancient Greek culture on everything from science to literature to politics continues to be relevantaand hotly debated. In "The Complete Idiotas Guide to Ancient Greece," you are invited to meet the Ancient Greeks and to understand their legacy by entering their world. a[ ...
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The Tomb of Agamemnon
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Cathy Gere
From Homer to Himmler, from Thucydides to Freud, Mycenae has occupied a singular place in the western imagination. As the backdrop to one of the more famous military campaigns of all time, Agamemnon's city has served for generation after generation as a symbol of the human appetite for war. As an archaeological site, it has given its name to the ...
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