books about: crete     books:       The Island29 reviews Victoria Hislop Harper Paperbacks, 2007 I learnt a lot from this book I was recommended this book by a friend, and bought it to take with me on my holiday. It was an interesting story about Greece and how leprosy influenced on families in the first half of the 20th century. The characters the author created in this history gave us a glimps of how this terrible disease affected so many. We had a large hospital and a litle church for people with leprosy in the city ...             The Omega Diet: The Lifesaving Nutritional Program Based on the Diet of the Island of Crete46 reviews Artemis P. Simopoulos, Jo Robinson Collins Living, 1999 Great book for great nutrition If you would like help to improve the way you eat, you should read this book and keep it as a reference. This book stays in my waiting room and is in the waiting room of a number of cardiologists.             Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete7 reviews Rodne Castleden Routledge, 1993 An excellent, modern book, both scholarly and accessible. Books about ancient cultures tend to be either slightly soft-focus and "fluffy" or dry and almost excessively scholarly; neither approach succeeds in bringing a culture to vivid life for the interested lay reader. This book, however, does just that. It has scholarly evidence in detail, but also fleshed-out conclusions, and unflinchingly looks even at evidence that doesn't "fit" our modern ...             The Rough Guide to Crete 7 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)1 review Rough Guides Rough Guides, 2007 Return to Iraklion At first I thought this book has too much detail and I will never use it, but now I find that is the first book I go to. I lived in Iraklion 40 years ago and I am planning my first return next April. Crete has changed a great deal, and this book is helping me to find the 'old Crete' that I remember. Rough Guide may not be helpful if you have 2 or 3 days in Crete, but I am planning an exended ...             Crete (Regional Guide)2 reviews Victoria Kyriakopoulos Lonely Planet, 2008 It was great for me. Let me start by saying I have been to Crete before. I bought the book, rented a car and drove around Crete in 2005 using this guide only with the objective of looking for value for money accomodation and places of interest to me for this trip ie. beaches on the south west: Paleohora, Elafonissi, Plakias etc. The accommodation I stayed at was picked from the book and was superb. The prices (in ...             Crete Travel Map (Globetrotter Travel Map)2 reviews Globetrotter Globetrotter, 2001 Brilliantly Done...The Perfect Traveler's Guide to Crete In preparation for my month in Crete recently, I bought three books...Globetrotter's Travel Pack/Crete, Berlitz's Greek Cassette Pack with Phrase Book and Wicked Greek for the Traveler and out of the three the one that proved most comprehensive and valuable was Globetrotter's Travel Pack. Nick Hanna does not fail the traveler in any aspect of his descriptions...from what sights to see, to ...             The Cretan Runner: The Story of the German Occupation3 reviews George Psychoundakis Penguin UK, 1999 Cretan Runner. May we never forget. You will never read a story quite like this again. A true story, 59 years old, so full of inspiration and courage it will never leave you. A young shepherd boy whose homeland is invaded and ablaze, murder and desperation all around him, does all he can to help end the misery of his people... he runs. And the island of Crete is like no other place to run. With huge mountains, massive gorges ...             Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (History and Warfare)10 reviews Antony Beevor Westview Press, 1994 The demise of the German paratroopers Again, a book about a comparatively unknown episode during the second world war. The fight for Crete can be summarized as one long series of mistakes, by both sides, and it was the Greek civilians that were left to pay. The Germans plan was overambitious in the extreme, especially considering their limited transportation resources. The British were so extremely arrogant and clumsy that they ...             The Lost Temple1 review Tom Harper Thomas Dunne Books, 2008 Indiana Stones style story tackles greatest legend of all time! Tom Harper has written some really amazing and fascinating adventures, in the "historical fiction" genre. Starting with his great series with Demetrious Askiates in Byzantium during the first crusades, Tom Harper continues his writing, with a story taking place shortly after WWII. The Lost Temple opens up on the invasion of Greece by the Nazi's in the beginning of WWII. We are introduced into ...             Last Lift from Crete (The Nicholas Everard World War II Saga)1 review Alexander Fullerton McBooks Press, 2005 Fighting in the Eastern Med This is book two in the series of books featuring Nicholas Everard. In this book he is on the destroyer Tuareg operating in the Eastern Med. This is still early in the war, and the British flotilla is facing the might of the German Luftwaffe. Then the order comes to make one more trip into Crete. Mr. Fullerton has done a supurb job of developing this new naval series. This series has the ...             The Making of the Cretan Landscape3 reviews Oliver Rackham, Jennifer Moody Manchester University Press, 1997 From pygmy hippos to plastic greenhouses The authors have traveled almost everywhere in Crete, observing at first hand vegetation, landform, and human effects on the landscape. They have also studied a vast body of literature, ranging from archaeological reports to Venetian archives to travelers' accounts. They have presented their knowledge in a very insightful, often original way, exploding older received wisdom such as the "ruined ...             A Daily Rate; the Girl from Montana; and Aunt Crete's Emancipation (1)5 reviews Isabella Alden, Grace Livingston Hill Barbour Publishing, Incorporated, 1999 One of her best!!! A Daily Rate was a great story. It is about a young, innocent girl who is struggling to make it on her own. She lives in a boarding house with various different characters. The girl comes into an inheritance, which changes her life and the life of a favorite aunt, who she sends to live with her. A Girl from Montana was a little too sugary-sweet for me, and somewhat hard to believe, but still ...             The Pale Surface of Things15 reviews Janey Bennett Hopeace Press, 2007 The Pale Surface of Things I've read this book and it is absolutely wonderful. Great story line, believable characters, a very enjoyable read. Once you start to read it, you will not want to put it down because you will want to know what is going to happen next to each of the characters.             Making a Landscape Sacred: Outlying Churches And Icon Stands in Sphakia, Southwestern Crete Lucia Nixon Oxbow Books Limited, 2006 This book examines the landscape in southwestern Crete from AD 1000-2000, using a phenomenological approach. Specifically, the positioning of outlying churches (exokklisia) and icon stands (eikonostasia) around Sphakia is looked at, in terms of spatial and social reasoning. What is certainly clear, is that people choose the location of sacred buildings particularly carefully, so the locations themselves cannot be seen as random. Routes, ...             The Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete (Art) Konstantin Kalokyris Red Dust, Inc., 1973             Fallschirmjagers in Crete2 reviews JeanYves Nasse Histoire and Collections, 2002 Great Photo Book Another great large format photo book from "Histoire & Collections". As the title states, it covers the battle for Crete mainly from the German perspective through personal narratives of the participants and hundreds of photos of German paratroopers and equipment. This is not a "textbook" of the battle, but rather a collection of photos and personal experiences with enough tactical information ...             In Search of Knossos : The quest for the Minotaur's labyrinth1 review Giovanni Caselli Peter Bedrick, 1999 Nice addition to our library This book was a nice addition to our homeschool library. Fits well with a lesson in The Mystery of History Vol. 1. - Was appropriate for my child who is in 5th grade.             The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury Imogen Grundon Libri Publications, 2007 John Pendlebury (1904-41), the "Cretan Lawrence", was shot in the first months of the German occupation of Crete while organizing bands of guerrillas to fight the invaders. Not a professional soldier, Pendlebury was chosen for the task because of his intimate knowledge of Crete, its people and language, acquired through his years of archaeological experience on the island. As Curator at Knossos, successor to Sir Arthur Evans, his athleticism and ...              search for books adventurer, battle, byzantine, churches, emancipation, everard, fallschirmjagers, globetrotter, history, knossos, labyrinth, landscape, lifesaving, minoans, minotaur, montana, nicholas, nutritional, occupation, outlying, paintings, pendlebury, program, regional, resistance, southwestern, sphakia, surface, things, warfare books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Valentyne Suite leave a comment home  impressum - about us