The Most Beautiful Villages of Greece and the Greek Islands
Mark Ottaway
Photographs by Hugh Palmer
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The very essence of Greece is conjured up in the flat roofed white houses of the Cyclades, startling against the blue sky and Aegean Sea.
This lovely book follows a journey which takes in the mountains of the mainland, where villages characterised by flowers and running water, stone-walled ground floors and overhanging wood-framed balconies betray a Turkish influence. It begins however in the Southern Peloponnese, where the tower houses were built by families warring with their neighbours. The villages of the Ionian Islands boast high-belfried churches, porticoes and colonnades, a testament to the rule by Venice. All the islands have their own delights: ancient temples and sandy bays, cobbled paths and shaded courtyards.
• Complete with appendices of useful information for the traveller.
The pictures in this series may be licensed for re-use.
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Greece from the Air
The Complete World of Greek Mythology
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500018340 | | ISBN-13 978-0500018347 | | | | 31.0 x 25.0 cm | | Hardback | | 224pp | | 285 illustrations, 285 in colour | | First published 1998 | | | | £24.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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