Oavsett om du reser första klass eller med en liten reskassa, tar guiden dig raka vägen till det bästa som Kreta har att erbjuda. Upptäck de antika lämningarna och museerna, Heraklion och Knossos, barnens favoriter eller de bästa stränderna och vack…

Oavsett om du reser första klass eller med en liten reskassa, tar guiden dig raka vägen till det bästa som Athen har att erbjuda. Upptäck museerna och gallerierna, Akropolis och Parthenon, barnens favoriter eller de bästa utflykterna i närheten. Dus…

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Greece. Following the self-guided tours in this book, you'll explore Athens' most popular sights, including the Acropolis, Ancient Agora, and the National Archa…

Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs an…

The second century A.D. traveller's guide to buildings, tombs, and statues including mythological, religious, and historical background of sites from Delphi to Olympia

Find your perfect island getaway with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to island-hop around the Cyclades, explore Crete's classical sightsor find peace and quiet on Alonissos, The Rough Guide to the Greek…

This definitive guide to the archaeological remains in the civic and commercial center of ancient Athens is an essential companion to the interested visitor, as well as to students of the topography of the classical city. A large-scale map provides…

Sample text from this glorious, colourful picture tour for young and old: Greece, rich in history, in light, in marble; the birthplace of western civilization.

Kreta - som gjord för vandring! Nästan 200 000 svenskar besöker Kreta varje år. Dessutom ökar intresset för friluftsliv, hälsa, djur och natur rent allmänt. Allt fler svenskar passar därför på att vara aktiva någon eller några dagar på sin solsemest…

Lonely Planet Greece is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stand in the shadow of the Acropolis, compare sunsets and beaches as you hop from island to island, or samp…

Hundreds of irresistible islands awaiting exploration. Whether you want to follow in the footsteps of legendary heroes at the Minoan palace, swim in the turquoise waters of idyllic Zakynthos bay or watch the sun set over Corfu from Kaiser's throne,…

Combining witty comment with meticulous research abounding in historical and cultural detail, Jezernik reveals how from the mid 16th to the late 20th century "The Balkans" have been perceived by west European travellers and experts, many of whom hav…

The recent economic crisis in Greece has, paradoxically enough, created better conditions for tourism. The Greeks are painfully aware that tourism is their best-functioning remaining industry. They value the visitor as never before, treat them with…

Freely provides detailed maps and itineraries for extended excursions. Sized to fit with ease into a backpack or a glove box, this useful compendium is suitable for all travelers to that part of the world.-Booklist

True to its name, this travel guide covers all of Athens's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use top 10 lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you.This newly updated pocket travel guide for Athens will lead you straight to the…

The glories of classical Greece are an essential part of our heritage and are echoed every day in the buildings and institutions we see around us. But who were the visitors from afar who first appreciated the riches of the archaeological past of Gre…

A deep-seated questioning of her inherited religion resurfaces when Myrna Kostash chances upon the icon of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica. A historical, cultural and spiritual odyssey that begins in Edmonton, ranges around the Balkans, and plunges in…

Rising from the waters between Greece and Italy, the Ionians - peaks of an underwater mountain range - are some of the most culturally, historically and mythologically rich in all Greece. Consisting of Corfu, Paxos, Ithaka, Lefkas, Cephalonia, Zakyn…

For a limited time, receive a free Fodor's Guide to Safe and Healthy Travel e-book with the purchase of this guidebook! Go to fodors.com for details.Written by locals, Fodor's Essential Greek Islands is the perfect guidebook for those looking for in…

Lukas D. Tsitsipis explores a case of linguistic shift in the Balkans. He focuses on Arvanitika, an Albanian variety spoken in Greece which is under threat through a process of attrition. Various factors relating the linguistic to the non-linguistic…

Norge - Kongeriket Norge är känt som ett rikt, avlångt och särpräglat land i norra Europa, bebott av "världens lyckligaste folk". Norrmännen har en stark nationalkänsla, som har stärkts av diverse historiska händelser som man har tvingats anpassa si…

The autobiography of the youth of the former Vice Presiden of Yugoslovia, which is also the story of a little-know land, Montenegro. Introduction and notes by William Jovanovich. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.

Newly revised, updated, and redesigned for 2018. True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Crete covers all the island's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use "top 10" lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you. Pack…

A memorable volume to mark number 1000 in the BAR International Series. After the most prolonged period of study and research, Ann Brown has prepared a detailed, facsimile edition of Arthur Evans's travel diaries in Crete (1894-99), which are now pa…

This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveller with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research. Written by an expert on Greece's landscape and arc…

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Athens will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer. Whether you're looking for museums and ancient sites, alluring nearby islands, nighttime hot-spots, streets for shopping, the liveliest…

You'll never fall into a tourist trap 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…

The information-packed volumes in this series provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture. Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery, and maps reflec…

En man som hade spelat fotboll med Sarajevo-mo¨rdaren Gavrilo Princip. En bosnisk bondkvinna som ville prata om Dag Hammarskjo¨ld. En striptease-danso¨s som vra¨kte i sig wienerschnitzel. Stolta Tito-partisaner. Ett svenskt par pa° desperat solsemes…

For over a century, scholars have recognized an 'orientalizing period' in the history of early Greek art, in which Greek artisans fashioned works of art under the stimulus of Near Eastern imports or resident foreign artisans. Previous studies have e…

Lonely Planet Greek Islands is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Marvel at clifftop sunsets in Santorini; get lost in the twisting, cobbled alleyways of Rhodes' Old…

"DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Corfu and the Ionian Islands" will lead you straight to the very best these islands have to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this g…

"DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Corfu and the Ionian Islands" will lead you straight to the very best these islands have to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this g…

Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed "DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, The DK Top 10 Guides" use exciting colorful photography and excellent cartography to provide a reliable and useful pocket-sized travel. Dozens of Top 10 lists p…

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Crete is your pocket guide to the very best of Crete. Packed with culture and activities for travelers to enjoy, our Top 10 Travel Guide is everything you'll need to plan a fantastic trip to Crete. Find beautiful s…

True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Dubrovnik & the Dalmatian Coast covers all the region's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use "top 10" lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you.This newly updated pocket tr…

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this vibrant country.Enjoy breathtaking riverside vistas in historic Belgrade, visit medieval monasteries in the…

Excerpt from The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia and Discovers His Old Country Guggenheim Fellowship requiring me to go to Europe for a year, I was thirty-three and had been 1n the United States nineteen years. At fourteen -…

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Dubrovnik and the Dalmatian Coast will lead you straight to the very best this region has to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this g…

'In the Dolphin's Wake' is the tale of Harry Bucknall's journey of over 5500 miles, lasting 183 days, visiting 36 islands and every island chain plus Mount Athos, Athens and the Turkish mainland.

Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor writes about walking from Hungary to the Balkans. The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933--to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allo…

Rick Steves Pocket guidebooks truly are a "tour guide in your pocket." This colorful, compact 220-page book includes Rick's advice for prioritizing your time, whether you're spending 1 or 7 days in a city. Everything a busy traveler needs is easy to…

Encompassing all six of Greece's island groups - starting in the west with the Ionian islands, moving east to the Argo-Saronics, continuing to the Cyclades, Crete and the Dodecanese, circling up to the North Aegean islands and back round to the Spor…

"A splendid new edition."James Campbell, Times Literary Supplement"Xan Fielding was a gifted, many-sided, courageous and romantic figure, at the same time civilized and Bohemian, and his thoughtful cast of mind was leavened by humour, spontaneous ga…

The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage. During the decade leading up to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, virtually every town and village throughout Anatolia was wracked by inte…

Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Islands are a prominent feature of the Aegean landscape, and this inevitably created a variet…

An archaeological study of the City Eleusinion in Athens, the sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter and the city terminus for the annual Eleusinian Mysteries. The book presents the stratigraphical evidence from excavations of a part of the sanctuary (cond…

Opa It's Athens, Greece KeeKee, the world traveling kitty, lands for another exciting adventure. Join KeeKee as she explores one of the oldest cities in the world. Children and adults will delight in discovering what makes Athens a must-visit desti…

The Chronicle of Morea, one of the most important and controversial historical narratives written in the late Middle Ages, tells the story of the formation and government by the Villehardouin dynasty of a remarkably successful Crusader State followi…