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The Olive Grove: Travels in Greece 5 reviews
Katherine Kizilos
Lonely Planet Publications, 1997
A Real Treat
+ excellent travel book on Greece
+ Vivid, concise account by an Australian-Greek journalist
+ A great travel companion
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Magarita's Olive Press 1 review
Rodney Shields
DUCKWORTH G, 2005
Boring
This is a rather boring book, written by an author who does not know the difference between telling a private and a personal story. Travel writer Charles Allen is quoted on the jacket saying that "Not since Durrell and Leigh Fermor has Greece been written about so passionately." I believe Mr. Allen ...
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This Way to Paradise--Dancing on the Tables 6 reviews
Willard Manus
Lycabettus Pr, 1998
Dancing on the Tables
+ Quite the epic tale
+ JOY TO READ
+ Truth speaks for itself
+ It's Brilliant!
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)53 reviews
Thucydides
Penguin Classics, 1954
Translations of Thucydides
+ More required reading
+ One of the most important books ever written.
+ They don't call them the Classics for Nothing
+ A Masterpiece
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The Greek for Love: A Memoir of Sorrow and Joy1 review
James Chatto
Vintage Canada, 2006
Love and loss on a Greek Island
This is a wonderful book! But don't read it if you're tempted by the Greek Islands - it could rearrange your priorities! I heard the author, James Chatto, interviewed on CBC Radio and was intriqued by his understated charm. I took the book out of the library, which is my common practice, and read ...
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Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra (Corfu) 6 reviews
Lawrence Durrell
Marlowe & Company, 1996
A small classic!
+ A splendid portrait of a place and time that are no more
+ A poet as a tourist guide?
I've lost track of how many times I've read "Prospero's Cell." Durrell's use of metaphor and simile is at times brilliant; it is always interesting. Every time I return to "Prospero," I become Durrell's companion, walking the cobblestone streets, swimming in aquarium-clear waters, treading grapes. ...
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The Summer of My Greek Taverna : A Memoir21 reviews
Tom Stone
Simon & Schuster, 2003
Stone's book on Greece is right on target in every way
+ Very enjoyable read
+ A bittersweet summer on the Isle of Patmos
+ breath of fresh air
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Fodor's Exploring the Greek Islands, 4th Edition (Exploring Guides)
Fodor's
Fodor's, 2007
Fodor's Exploring Guides are the most up-to-date, full-color guidebooks available. Covering destinations around the world, these guides are loaded with photos; essays on culture and history, architecture and art; itineraries, walks and excursions; descriptions of sights; and practical information. Fodor's Exploring the Greek Islands, 4th Edition gives you great tips on dining and lodging for ...
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A Lone Red Apple28 reviews
Aurelia
Greek America Press, 1998
Delightful!
+ Unearthly Delights
+ A delightful story!
+ Insightful and whimsicial
+ A Lone Red Apple
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The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)12 reviews
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2004
"Come, kiss the book!"
+ "Come unto these yellow sands..."
+ A later work of Shakespeare
+ Good Seller
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My Family and Other Animals28 reviews
Gerald Durrell
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004
Gerald Durell is wonderful!
+ If one could "fall in love" with a book, I did!
+ Quite Excellent
+ Absolutely side-splitting
+ My family and other animals
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The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village1 review
Michael Herzfeld
Princeton University Press, 1988
An ethnographic study with oomph and panache
Ever since I became interested in Greece I have been reading books that I would not otherwise have bothered with and some of them have widened my horizons and deepened my understanding (of things in general) to an extent I would not have expected. This book by Herzfeld is one such work. Its rather ...
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The Magus220 reviews
John Fowles
Back Bay Books, 2001
Yes.
+ he should have left it alone
+ Where's the rest of the story?
+ The Magus
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It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks11 reviews
John Mole
Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2006
Amusing, absorbing, and just plain funny
+ anna maria loved it
+ Been There, Done It!
If you enjoyed Memoirs of an American Housewife in Japan, and A Year In Provence, you won't be disappointed with It's All Greek to Me! You'll love it. All three books have the same ingredient, which makes them so enjoyable: humor. The sub-title: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, ...
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Reflections on a Marine Venus1 review
Lawrence Durrell
Faber & Faber Ltd, 2001
Dazzling, many-layered vision of the Greek Islands
The `marine Venus' of the title is a statue which was found by sailors in their nets at the bottom of Rhodes harbor and which much appealed to Durrell, who thought of her as the 'presiding genius' of the place. He began this book while assigned to Rhodes as an information officer in 1945, and ...
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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
Fascinating, practical information
+ Great book for great nutrition
+ Good explaination of Crete diet
+ Really?
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Report to Greco4 reviews
Nikos Kazantzakis
Faber and Faber, 2001
Religion for modern people
+ A stunning book by a brilliant author
+ I am really disappointed!!!!
+ A book so powerful, so essential, so life-altering no wonder its out of print...
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Fodor's Athens: The Collected Traveler1 review
Barrie Kerper
Fodor's, 2004
Another first-rate selection by Kerper
Barrie Kerper says she has been keeping travel files in cardboard cartons for many years: cuttings, clippings, articles, leaflets. Here she selects from what she has on Greece and the result is dynamite but instead of exploding, it delights and impresses. The book includes material on Athens, the ...
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Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel399 reviews
Louis De Bernieres
Vintage, 1995
Captain Corelli's Mandolin...Bernieres' masterpiece
+ Enjoyed it, but...
+ Book Review of Corelli's Mandolin
+ A Rich Slice of Life
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A House in Corfu: A Family's Sojourn in Greece 5 reviews
Emma Tennant
Holt Paperbacks, 2003
A House in Corfu
+ A House In Corfu
I was amazed by the negative review another reader gave this lovely book. I would guess that most of us who like to read about a life spent in the sun, do not expect, or want, an action-packed plot! The whole point of living a Meditteranean idyll, where one day slips lazily into another, is that ...
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