Author: Victor HardbattlePublisher: New Line Publishing
ISBN: 1844810518
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Landscapes of Western Crete
Author: Jonnie GodfreyPublisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 9781856911887
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This guide to Malta, Gozo and Comina includes: topographical walking maps; fold-out touring maps; many short walks and picnic suggestions - suitable for hot summer days and for those with young children; and an update service with specific route-change information.
Western Crete
Author: Jonnie GodfreyPublisher: Hunter Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9781856913355
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This guide is aimed at visitors who want to explore the countryside, whether by private or public transport or on foot. It gives details of car tours, picnics and walks for all ages and abilities, as well as public transport timetables.
Hikes Walks and Rambles in Western Crete
Author: Angelos AssariotakisPublisher: David Brown Book Company
ISBN: 9789602186442
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Crete is a unique place, full of contrasts. Due to its position in the Aegean Sea, its long history and the magnificent natural surroundings, the island attracts people of different interests and taste. In this very informative walking guide you will find everything you need to discover the island's hidden treasures. The authors, raised in Crete, have put their long experience of hiking onto paper giving detailed descriptions of the most important and most beautiful hikes, walks and rambles in Western Crete (with trails covering the regions of Chania and Rethymnon). The 51 routes are meticulously described and include all the necessary information (difficulty, duration, accommodation, access etc). You will also find interesting facts about the villages, the traditional cuisine and the sites of Western Crete, as well as the customs of the local people and their way of life. Most descriptions are accompanied by appendices with information that is less practical but will put the finishing touch to the Crete mosaic.
Eastern Crete
Author: Jonnie GodfreyPublisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 9781856911979
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This guide to Malta, Gozo and Comina includes: topographical walking maps; fold-out touring maps; many short walks and picnic suggestions - suitable for hot summer days and for those with young children; and an update service with specific route-change information.
Crete Beyond the Palaces
Author: Leslie Preston DayPublisher: INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN: 1623030870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This volume presents papers from the conference "Crete 2000: A Centennial Celebration of American Archaeological Work on Crete (1900-2000)," held in Athens from July 10-12, 2000. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Study Center for East Crete organized the conference. Scholars participating in the American and joint Greek-American on Crete or studying material from these excavations were invited to present papers at the conference. The volume is divided into the following sections: Trade, Society and Religion, Chronology and History, Landscape and Survey, and Technology and Production.
The Cretan Runner
Author: George PsychoundakisPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590179056
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A witty, thrilling, and “effortlessly poetic” account of the Cretan resistance during World War II—with a map and 32 black-and-white photographs (The Guardian) George Psychoundakis was a 21-one-year-old shepherd from the village of Asi Gonia when the battle of Crete began: “It was in May 1941 that, all of a sudden, high in the sky, we heard the drone of many aeroplanes growing steadily closer.” The German parachutists soon outnumbered the British troops who were forced first to retreat, then to evacuate, before Crete fell to the Germans. So began the Cretan Resistance and the young shepherd’s career as a wartime runner. In this unique account of the Resistance, Psychoundakis records the daily life of his fellow Cretans, his treacherous journeys on foot from the eastern White Mountains to the western slopes of Mount Ida to transmit messages and transport goods, and his enduring friendships with British officers (like his eventual translator Patrick Leigh Fermor) whose missions he helped to carry out with unflagging courage, energy, and good humor.
Kavousi I
Author: Donald C. HaggisPublisher: INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN: 1623030366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Kavousi I is the initial volume of the Kavousi Excavation Series, which presents the final report of the Kavousi Project, a program of archaeological investigation near the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. Subsequent volumes will publish the results of the 1987-1992 excavations at the Vronda and Kastro sites in the Siteia Mountains overlooking Kavousi and of the cleaning and new study of the excavations of Harriet Boyd in 1900 and 1901. This volume, Kavousi I: The Archaeological Survey of the Kavousi Region, provides a comprehensive look at the topography of the area, its natural resources, and the way in which the local people interacted with them over time, as shown in the changing pattern of settlement. It sets the stage for the report on the excavations and provides an introduction to the local soils and to the pottery classification used by the excavators.
Landscape Disturbance and Biodiversity in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems
Author: Philip W. RundelPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 366203543X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Human impact on natural landscapes through urbanization and agricultural expansion are becoming more and more dramatic and are the cause of serious environmental problems. This volume examines the effect of landscape disturbance on plant and animal diversity in the five mediterranean-climate regions of the world. It begins with three introductory chapters broadly reviewing the issues of landscape degradation. Further contributions describe regional land use conflicts in each of the five regions. Landscape disturbance and plant diversity, and landscape disturbance and animal diversity are treated in separate chapters. Four contributions deal with demography and ecophysiology in vegetation succession following disturbance. The volume closes with a consideration of the future addressing aspects of environmental politics.
Change and Transition on Crete: Interpreting the Evidence from the Hellenistic through to the Early Byzantine Period
Author: Jane FrancisPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803270578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The theme of this volume, presented in honour of G.W.M. Harrison, whose academic contributions have enriched our perspective of Roman Crete, is change and transition, a topic that challenges some of the earlier approaches to Hellenistic and Roman Crete, and which presents a different perspective on historical events and archaeological evidence.
