Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Europe - Greece

This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'election, a 'gang' of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a community of dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on working, acting and creating in a tourist space, offers them an extreme identity, which in turn is aesthetically marked by the transient cultural properties of Mykonos. Drawing semiotically from its ancient counterpart Delos, whose myth of emergence entails a spatial restlessness, contemporary Mykonos also acquires an idiosyncratic...

National Geographic's Adventure Map of Greece is an invaluable tool for travelers seeking to explore the country's rich history, remarkable beaches or picturesque islands. Find cities and towns easily with the aid of a user-friendly index. Plan your route with the mapped road network complete with distances and designations for expressways, major and secondary routes along with tracks and highlighted scenic roads for those wishing to travel off the beaten path. Additional travel information includes airports and airfields, passes and...

National Geographic's Crete Adventure Map is designed to meet the needs of adventure travelers with its detailed, accurate information and user-friendly design. This map includes the locations of thousands of towns and villages, plus a clearly marked road network complete with distances and designations for expressways and roadways. Secondary roads, tracks, and paths are included for adventurers seeking to explore more remote regions. With specialty content to include hundreds of diverse and unique recreational, ecological, cultural, and...

On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen from his grief: the notion to build a feather-light flying machine. And so, on the island where Daedalus and Icarus had made man's maiden flight, MacLean journeyed back to beginnings, back into the Greek myths, and--with the help of his Cretan neighbors and plenty of wine--built a plane and tried to fly.

Falling for Icarus is at once a meditation on love, a celebration of the passion for flight, and a hilarious, vivid...

Revered as the birthplace of Western thought and democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from the classical city-state to today's contemporary capital, revealing a world-famous metropolis that has been resurrected and redefined time and again.

Although the Acropolis remains the city's anchor, Athens' vibrant culture extends far beyond the Greek city's antique boundaries. James H. S. McGregor points out how the cityscape preserves signs of the many actors who have crossed its...

Greece has always had a charm that enchanted the world since the ancient times. The birthplace of Greek mythology, ancient Greek civilization, and Greek philosophy, society and culture, this country has greatly influenced both the ancient and the modern world.

This country is also one of the most popular tourist destinations in the...