| Reading Suggestions |
| Some reading suggestions to help you get the
most out of your walking tour in Greece:
Guide Books Mark Ellingham et. al. The Rough Guide to Greece. 1998. A good general guide to Greece with good short sections on Greek history and literature, with extracts.Rosemary Hall et. al. The Lonely Planet Guide: Greece.3rd ed. 1998. A good general guidebook to Greece.Robin Barber. The Blue Guide: Greece. 6th ed. 1995. An excellent guidebook for those interested in history, architecture, etc. Little information about hotels, restaurants and other practical matters.Deni Brown. Eyewitness Travel Guide: Greece. 1997. Informative and easy-to-use guides to Greece and the islands which rely heavily on illustrations.Deni Brown. Eyewitness Travel Guide: The Greek Islands. 1997. Travel Literature Patrick Leigh Fermor. Arcadia: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese. 1958. A warm and insightful account of the intrepid authors travels in the Mani which combines personal anecdotes and history. Now out of print.Henry Miller. The Colossus of Maroussi. 1941. The famous author's inspiring experiences in Greece.Gerald Durrell. My Family and Other Animals. Hilarious and insightful novel about the author's childhood in Corfu.John Fowles. The Magus. A wonderfully-crafted story which reveals the magic of Greece: a young Briton moves to Greece to teach and becomes involved in a world of mystery which he can neither penetrate nor escape.Nikos Kazantzakis. Journey to the Morea. Trans. F.A.Reed.1965. An exploration of Greece and her history by one of her most famous and controversial writers, author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ. Unfortunately out of print. Also worth reading by the same author for insight into Greece: At the Palaces of Knossos and Alexander the Great: A Novel.
Richard Clogg. A Concise History of Greece. 1992. A solid and well-written account of Greece's history by a renowned authority on Greece.C.M. Woodhouse. Modern Greece: A Short History. 6th ed. 1998. A penetrating account of Greek history from Constantine the Great to the 1990s.Tamara Talbot Rice. Every Day Life in Byzantium. 1967. A very readable discussion of various aspects (religion, administration, the military, and others) of life in the Byzantine Empire.
A. Huxley and W. Taylor. Flowers of Greece and the Aegean. 1977. Still one of the accepted authoritative guides to the flora of Greece.G. Sfikas. Wild Flowers of Greece. 1999. A handy little guidebook specifically on Greek wild flowers by a local authority. Difficult to find outside of Greece.
George Psychoundakis.The Cretan Runner.Trans. Patrick Leigh Fermor. 1955. Rpt. 1998. Autobiography of a shepherd who became a war-time runner in the Greek resistance during World War II.Robert Graves. The Greek Myths. Various editions. Comprehensive scholarly guide to Greek mythology (including pre-Olympian myths) by a renowned expert in the field. |
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