Marco Polo Crete: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips! Fully revised and updated for 2016. Now with new Discovery Tours chapter. Experience all of Crete's attractions with this up-to date and authoritative guide, complete with Insider Tips. Most holidaymakers want to have fun and feel relaxed from the moment they arrive at their holiday destination that's what Marco Polo Guides are all about. You'll discover hotels and restaurants, trendy places to go and the best nightlife. There are also tips...
The happy and sunlit childhood of Gerald Durrell, and family, on the Greek island of Corfu. This is how the celebrated world conservation hero got his start. For the passionate young animal lover, the island in the Ionian Sea was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts. As Durrell writes... "To me, this blue kingdom was a treasure house of strange beasts which I longed to collect and observe, and at first it was frustrating for I could only peck along the shoreline like so...
A year living on Symi, a Greek island. James' blog posts from 2013, edited and set out in printed form with images by Neil Gosling, take us through one whole year living on a small Greek island in southeast Greece. From winter storms to summer visitors, from photo walks to book signings, and from goats to shrimp festivals, Village View gives us an upfront, honest and mildly edited account of James and Neil's eleventh year on Symi. "Symi's charm is in its people and the minutiae of their lives; J...
On this 2019 edition the chart specification has been improved to show coloured light flashes. The display of buoyage within the Levkas Canal has been improved. Submarine cables and firing practice areas have been updated. There has been general updating throughout.
Andros. The Little England of the Cyclades (Greece for Culture Lovers (Black and White), #6)
by Denis Roubien
"Walks in Elounda East Crete" & "the Elounda Walkers' Map"
by Lance Chilton
Western Cyclades: Kea Kythnos Seriphos Siphnos Milos Kimolos (McGilchrist's Greek Islands, #19)
by Nigel McGilchrist
Kea is unexpectedly rich in history and variety of landscape. The island is particularly good for walking; its valleys favour many species of wild flowers and its upland slopes support magnificent Valonia oaks. In historic antiquity there were four important cities on Kea and the remains of Karthaia constitute one of the most evocative sites in the Aegean. Most remarkable is the Lion of Ioulis, one of the earliest and largest pieces of monumental sculpture in the Greek world. Kythnos has a peace...
"Not the shadow of a smile disturbs the dry exposition of the scholarly Englishman [Cecil Torr] who has given us the best historical monograph on the island... Read him and you will see why..." (Lawrence Durrell, "Reflections on a Marine Venus"). Cecil Torr's two 19th-century studies of Rhodes, in the Greek Dodecanese, off the coast of Asia Minor, were the first and most authoritative English guides to the island's multi-layered history. Although more than a hundred years have passed since publi...
Will There Be Toilets on Delos? is a record of visits to 60 inhabited Greek islands. Before he retired, John Bishop read that there were 166 such islands, out of which by then he had visited 10, partly from nervousness about the Colonels, flying and the heat. Setting out to fight his fears, he quickly quadrupled the total, thanks to the configurations of the Greek ferry system. At this point he realised the rest of the islands were difficult to get to, and some islands needed multiple visits to...
