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1977"Comprehensive and satisfying study. has brought together for the first time the most fascinating aspects of an island incomparably rich in pre-history,vivid and challenging in its present" Illustrated with lively detailed line drawings by Victor Shreve. 249p. bibliography.index. Book
1977Starting with the Bronze Age this book discusses the Early Iron Age, and the colonial expansions which preceded Classical Greece. " .This book is especially valuable for its combination of political, economic and social history, literature, archaeology and philosophy into one whole picture of this fascinating subject. It should help the reader, generalist or specialist, gain a genuine insight into Greek history. " 257p.+ pates, bibliography. maps.Neat but spine is sun faded. Book
2010'It's ten years since Odysseus and the warrior, Eperitus, joined the heroes of the age to compete for the hand of Helen of Sparta. Settled in his small island kingdom, Odysseus wants nothing more than to rule Ithaca in peace. Meanwhile Eperitus, frustrated at his quiet life, dreams of glory in battle. When the lion-motifed sails of Agamemnon appear on the horizon, Odysseus knows that the time for peace is over and a time of war is beginning. Helen of Sparta has been abducted by a prince of Troy and the hosts of ancient Greece are gathering. As the greatest names flock to join the crusade, only Achilles is missing. Odysseus must use all his wits and cunning to hunt him down and persuade him to join their cause. For without Achilles, the gates of Troy will never fall. Book
1996Sassela is tired of her fourth-grade students, tired of her mundane life and particularly tired of living with a man she no longer loves. When she meets Ciam, with his lilting accent and a smile that reflects his native Caribbean sunshine, he seems like a balmy breeze in her otherwise cold life. Fifteen years her junior, the free-spirited Ciam is a welcome flirtation until he unexpectedly shows up on her trip to Greece. There they meet a strange otherworldly girl, and Sassela soon discovers that her innocent fling has grown dangerously out of control and that a sinister evil lurks deep within her island paradise. 248p., Remainder mark, else as new Book
1986Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Minor shelfwear to book. DJ is price-clipped. Light edgewear to DJ with a couple of small tears. ; 446pp, illustrated.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 882 pages
1986Former owner's name on ffep. Minor bumping to 1 corner and edge of front board. DJ has a minor shelfwear. ; 446pp, illustrated.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 882 pages
1986Small bump to lower edge of front board. DJ has chipping and small tears along top edge. Minor creasing to DJ. ; 446pp, illustrated.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 882 pages
1982Some foxing to half-title. Else minor shelfwear. ; 160pp, illustrated.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 160 pages
1982Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else minor shelfwear to book. DJ has some chipping with 1 open tear (3 cm). ; 160pp, illustrated.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 160 pages
2004"When half-Greek, half-Scots private investigator Alex Mavros is asked to trace a missing teenager, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, he doesn't see any connection with the recent plague of violent killings afflicting Athens. As he follows the trail to the missing girl, he discovers that the present day killings have their roots in the brutal civil war. And that he has put himself and the woman he oves in mortal danger...." Book
2003IRAKLIS - a mysterious Greek terrorist group. A rogue offshoot of the communist party. At its head, a man with many names. An elusive master assassin who has been in exile for ten years. Alex Mavris- half-Greek, half-Scottish investigator. A man driven by the desire to find his missing brother, last heard of at an underground resistance meeting during the dictatorship. Grace Helmer- an American who saw her father murdered when she was a child. Iraklis was responsible. Two businessmen are murdered in Athens. The trademark piece of olive wood is found with the victims' bodies. Iraklis is back. And Grace Helmer employs Mavros to track down her father's killer - an intriguing and atmospheric new thriller in which the sins of the fathers come back to haunt their children Book
1961Novel by well known Australian author, set among the ex-patriot community on a Greek Island.(fictional Kalymnos) 273p. Book
1984Faint foxing. Light shelfwear. ; 65pp, + plates with 101 illustrations.; 65 pages
2003Cunning, fantastical tales about a Greek village of the imagination, from a startling new talent. Panos Karnezis's remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there - the priest, the whore, the doctor, the seamstress, the mayor and the occasional animal: a centaur, a parrot that recites Homer, a horse called History. Their lives intersect, as lives do in a small place, and they know each other's secrets: the hidden crimes, the mysteries, the little infamies that men commit. Karnezis observes his villagers with a worldly eye, and creates a place where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a place full of passion, cruelty, and deep reserves of black humor. Nineteen debut stories reflect daily life in a Greek village over many years. Greece, first of all, is a nation of villages - from the sooty neighborhoods of Athens down to the tiny place ("so poor it doesn't have a name") that's the epicenter of these tales. The first-time author (a Greek engineer living in Britain) knows the brusque clannishness of his native land and conveys the rhythms and tempers of its life with a deft touch. "Another Day on Pegasus," for example, is told from the perspective of a bus driver: a sort of Greek Ralph Kramden who argues with his conductor, insults (or flirts with) his passengers, and manages despite the odds to keep his bus ("Pegasus") running from day to day. Greek bureaucracy is portrayed in its harshest light in "Jeremiad," about the unhappy fate of an old man who gets to the Pension Office late and dies in the waiting room before his claim is settled. Shadows of the classical age stretch into the present in "Circus Attraction" and "Cassandra Is Gone," both about the career of a centaur who becomes the star attraction of a flyblown rural circus and falls in love with the tattooed lady (who may or may not be the original Cassandra of Agamemnon). "A Classical Education" (a small-town clerk's attempts to teach Homer to his parrot) has a Flaubertian tone to it, while "Sacrifice" (a brief sketch of a father and son who slaughter a murderous cow) has a bitter tensity reminiscent of Chekhov. The finest piece, "Immortality," is an elegiac, almost mystical account of villagers in the early 20th century as they beg a waylaid photographer to "make us live forever" by taking their picture. Fine and true: Karnezis breathes fresh life into traditional Greek society without mocking or sanitizing it. Book
1966Simplified versions of some of the better known classical Greek myths, epics and tragedies, with explanatory text showing echoes in art, expression (language), history and literature. This book was used in Canadian schools, but it is not a fusty textbook. 182p. illus,. pronunciation guide, index. A neat tight copy, marred by blacked out block inside front cover, else near fine. Book
2013Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose during lunch at one of London's fanciest restaurants. But when his big question involves a trip abroad, not a trip down the aisle, she's completely crushed. So when Ben, an old flame, calls her out of the blue and reminds Lottie of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. No formal dates -- just a quick march to the altar and a honeymoon on Ikonos, the sun-drenched Greek island where they first met years ago. Book
1954THIS VOLUME ONLY. 245x180 mm. 144 pages. Gilt hardcover. Spine edges slightly bumped. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
1983Well illustrated tourist guide to Minoan archaeological sites in Crete . 176p.plates (col) Maps.illus.bibliography,index Book
Comprehensive guide for visitors produced by a leading Greek travel agency. Essays on all aspects of Greek life, ancient & modern. Translated from Greek by Harry T.Hionides Large format Pbk (nd.c.1975) 324p. illus (B & W and colour) maps,tables,index. [6 copies found in Worldcat] Book
1947"This is not a ramble, nor a travel book, not yet a guide, but a description in the 18th century meaning of the term" These witty, and amusing observations - both verbal and visual - are based on his experience of Greece in 1944 when "The British government had assigned him to the Athens embassy as first secretary. After 18 months he returned to London with a sheaf of sketches of what he had seen." 224p. Illus+ 4 double sided color plates. map, index. The pale yellow linen cover has not aged well and is stained, but the content is still neat and unmarked. Book
1956Pages and wraps browned. Top of spine bumped. With the ownership stamps of A. H. Travis to front wrap and half-title; 182 pages
1956Pages and wraps browned. Top corner bumped with some creasing through pages. With the ownership stamps of A. H. Travis to front wrap and half-title; Pp 193-460; 267 pages
1957Pages and wraps browned. Former owner's name to half-title. ; Pp 463-676; 213 pages
1964Hard bump to upper edge of rear board (with small tear to cloth) Scholars' name to ffep (Mark Golden). DJ is price-clipped. DJ has a few tears and chipping. ; Reprint of the 1964 ed. 160pp, illustrated.; 160 pages
1969Light shelfwear. Some foxing. ; Contents: Epic Cycle; Works and Days; Hesiodic Theogony, Shield of Heracles; Homeric Hymns; Homeric Hymn to Apollo; Homeric Hymn to Demeter; Hexameter in the Hands of the Philosophers. ; 201 pages