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WILDERNESS TRAVEL
Greece: Zagoria and Mt. Olympus
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 5 items are available
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The Search for Ancient Greece
• Roland Etienne
• Francoise Etienne
ARCHAEOLOGY •
1992 •
PAPER
• 175 PAGES
This portrait of the history of archaeology features hundreds of color photos and paintings, a chronology and excerpts by the great archaeologists. It's a pocket-size encyclopedia, part of the "New Horizons" series, and a fascinating look at the meaning of ancient Greece to our civilization -- quite an accomplishment for such a slim book.
(GRE01, $15.95) |
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Greece, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• Artemis Leontis
ANTHOLOGY •
1997 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
A collection of 24 stories by modern Greek writers, organized geographically -- and a wonderful introduction to Greek people, culture and landscapes. Editor Artemis Leontis is an adjunct professor of modern Greek at the University of Michigan. She includes stories by Odysseus Elytis, George Seferis, Nikos Kazantzakis and Vassilis Vassilikos.
(GRE190, $14.95) |
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Roumeli, Travels in Northern Greece
• Patrick Leigh Fermor
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 260 PAGES
An account of travels, history and place by the incomparable Fermor, who lived in Greece for many decades, originally published in 1966. Among his many odd and enlightening adventures, Fermor visits with the Sarakatsans and Kravarites, two remote peoples (ethnography is among his many interests), and chases off to Missolonghi to retrieve a pair of Lord Byron's shoes.
(GRE249, $15.95) |
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Eyewitness Guide Greece, Athens and the Mainland
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 354 PAGES
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(GRE38, $25.00) |
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Greece Map
• Michelin
2011 •
MAP
A colorful shaded map of Greece, the Greek Islands and the western coast of Turkey at a scale of 1:800,000. Two Sides. 49x41 inches.
(GRE24, $11.95) |
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Also Recommended
Blue Guide Greece, The Mainland
• Sherry Marker
• James Pettifer
• GUIDEBOOK
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With extensive background on the history, art, architecture and culture of mainland Greece, serious-minded travelers will not want to be without this guide.
(GRE40, $32.95)
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
• Robert Morkot
• REFERENCE
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This pictorial survey of Greek history, culture and expansion features dozens of full color maps.
(GRE125, $18.00)
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A Traveller's History of Greece
• Timothy Boatswain
• Colin Nicolson
• HISTORY
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A nicely written survey from prehistory through the 1990s: wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed.
(GRE55, $14.95)
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Why the Greeks Matter
• Thomas Cahill
• HISTORY
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Cahill sketches ancient Greek society and civilization through the lives and words of politicians, playwrights, a poet, philosopher and artist in this eloquent and absorbing tribute.
(GRE182, $16.00)
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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
• Mark Mazower
• HISTORY
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Mazower chronicles the history and culture of Thessaloniki from Byzantium to Ottoman rule, and the terrible devastation of WWI in this inviting book, part history and part travelogue.
(GRE232, $18.00)
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The Ancient Olympic Games
• Judith Swaddling
• HISTORY
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An attractively illustrated survey of the religion, mythology and celebration of sport at Olympia.
(GRE158, $19.95)
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The Ancient Olympics, A History
• Nigel Spivey
• HISTORY
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Spivey, a wonderful popular writer and classicist at Cambridge, offers a vivid history of Greek athletic contests, not just the Olympian but also the Pythian at Delphi, Isthmian at Corinth and Nemean at Argos.
(GRE206, $19.99)
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The Classical World
• Robin Lane Fox
• HISTORY
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Fox conjures tyrants, conquerors and enthralling personalities, from Homer to Hadrian, in this marvelously written history of ancient Greece and Rome.
(GRE293, $19.99)
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The World of the Ancient Greeks
• John Camp
• Elizabeth Fisher
• HISTORY
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Featuring hundreds of illustrations and inviting short chapters on topics from The First Greeks to The Heroic Age and Classical Athens. With modern color photographs of great ancient cities from Athens and Delphi to Knossos, Ephesus, Pergamum and Priene.
(GRE365, $24.95)
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Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History
• Marina Belozerskaya
• Kenneth Lapatin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This lively illustrated guide covers the architecture, painting and sculpture of Ancient Greece from the third millennium to the end of the Hellenistic period. With 282 color and 28 black-and-white illustrations.
(GRE194, $19.95)
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The Complete World of Greek Mythology
• Richard Buxton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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With hundreds of color illustrations, site plans, genealogies and maps, this handsome, encyclopedic reference illuminates the world of the Greek gods.
(GRE377, $39.95)
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Dinner with Persephone
• Patricia Storace
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The pleasures and complexities of contemporary Greece, marvelously described by an American poet spending a year there. Storace intertwines her own perceptions with the history of the country and the influence of pop culture on the classical landscape.
(GRE28, $15.95)
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The Colossus of Maroussi
• Henry Miller
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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Miller captures the spirit and warmth of the resilient Greek people in this inspired tale of a wartime journey from Athens to Crete, Corfu and Delphi with his friend Lawrence Durrell.
(GRE05, $12.95)
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A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece
• Richard Stoneman
• ANTHOLOGY
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Poetry, prose and literature over the ages, arranged geographically with an excellent introduction and commentary. Stoneman artfully weaves together hundreds of short excerpts.
(GRE06, $19.95)
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Corelli's Mandolin
• Louis De Bernieres
• LITERATURE
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This lyrical novel captures the humanity, quirks and loves of village life in Greece. A satire of war, the novel is set on the Greek island of Cephallonia during the Italian occupation in the 1940s.
(GRE51, $15.95)
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The Iliad
• Homer
• Robert Fagles
• LITERATURE
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In the excellent Fagles translation -- here presented in a deluxe paper edition -- Homer's Trojan epic hasn't aged a bit in the last 2,700 years. Take it along to Troy and the Aegean. We also carry Fagles's translation of The Odyssey. (Item no. GRE45, $17.00)
(GRE173, $17.00)
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The King Must Die
• Mary Renault
• LITERATURE
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A novel of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur and king of Athens, including his Cretan adventures. The first in Renault's trilogy of well-researched page-turners.
(GRE23, $15.00)
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The Songs of the Kings
• Barry Unsworth
• LITERATURE
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Unsworth's sly novel, set in 1260 B.C. as scheming Odysseus prepares to plunder Troy. A familiar story enhanced by Unsworth's mix of classic cadence, contemporary language, ripe humor and pulled-from-the-headlines satire.
(GRE185, $13.95)
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