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GREEK ISLANDS
Worth Looking For
Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth
• Maurice Krafft
NATURAL HISTORY •
1993 •
PAPER
• 175 PAGES
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
This lavishly illustrated pocket-size encyclopedia by the great French scientist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1991) covers the formation and study of volcanoes along with dozens of famous examples.
(GEO06, $15.95) |
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Reflections on a Marine Venus
• Lawrence Durrell
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2009 •
PAPER
• 198 PAGES
Originally published in 1953, this is Durrell's contribution to the mythology of postwar Greece, an ode to the island of Rhodes: warm, beautiful and sedate. He was intoxicated by the place.
(GRE29, $12.00) |
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Ancient Greece, A Concise History
• Peter Green
HISTORY •
1979 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
• COMING IN
A lively, illustrated history of Greece from the Stone Age to the death of Alexander the Great in under 200 pages. With good maps, a bibliography for further reading and hundreds of black-and-white photos of sites and objects.
(GRE04, $18.95) |
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