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Author : Kevin Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (558 download)
Download or read book The Flight of Ikaros. A Journey in Greece written by Kevin Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Andrews
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 158988261X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book The Flight of Ikaros written by Kevin Andrews and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the great and lasting books about Greece."—Patrick Leigh Fermor "An intense and compelling account of an educated, sensitive archaeologist wandering the back country during the civil war. Half a century on, still one of the best books on Greece as it was before 'development.'"—The Rough Guide to the Greek Islands "He also is in love with the country…but he sees the other side of that dazzling medal or moon…If you want some truth about Greece, here it is."—Louis MacNeice, The Observer "One of the best and most honest books about the modern Greeks."—E. R. Dodds "Kevin Andrews experienced the dangers of the countryside during the civil war. The Flight of Ikaros, the book he produced from his travels, remains not only one of the greatest we have about postwar Greece—memorializing a village culture that has almost vanished—but also one of the most moving accounts I have ever read of people caught up in political turmoil…Flightwas first published in 1959 and last reprinted by Penguin in 1984. For too many years, this rare account has languished out of print."—Wall Street Journal In 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a Fulbright Fellowship to study medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese. Andrews spent the long summers of 1948 to 1951 traveling through the region and the winters writing in Athens. This opportunity to travel through little-frequented areas during Greece’s postwar civil war—and before the advent of tourism, industrialization, or easy communications—brought Andrews into immediate contact with village populations, shepherd clans, and the paramilitary vigilantes who kept their own kind of order in the provinces, as well as with the displaced peasants of the Athenian slums. The close experience of all these lives took shape in The Flight of Ikaros, first published in 1959. Paul Dry Books is pleased to return to print this modern travel classic.
Author : Kevin Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Flight of Ikaros written by Kevin Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Andrews
Publisher : Paul Dry Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781589880641
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Flight of Ikaros written by Kevin Andrews and published by Paul Dry Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intense and compelling account of an educated, sensitive archeologist wandering the back country during the civil war. Half a century on, still one of the best books on Greece as it was before ‘development.’”—The Rough Guide to the Greek Islands “He also is in love with the country . . . but he sees the other side of that dazzling medal or moon. . . . If you want some truth about Greece, here it is.”—Louis MacNeice, The Observer “One of the best and most honest books about the modern Greeks.”—E. R. Dodds In 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a Fulbright Fellowship to study medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese. Andrews spent the long summers of 1948 to 1951 traveling through the region and the winters writing in Athens. This opportunity to travel through little-frequented areas during Greece’s postwar civil war—and before the advent of tourism, industrialization, or easy communications—brought Andrews into immediate contact with village populations, shepherd clans, and the paramilitary vigilantes who kept their own kind of order in the provinces, as well as with the displaced peasants of the Athenian slums. The close experience of all these lives took shape in The Flight of Ikaros, first published in 1959. Paul Dry Books is pleased to return to print this modern travel classic. Kevin Andrews (1924–1989) was a writer and archaeologist. He wrote many books about Greece, of which he became a citizen in 1975.
Author : Keith Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Flight of Ikaros written by Keith Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rory MacLean
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Falling for Icarus written by Rory MacLean and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story that combines travel with personal memoir. Rory MacLean sets off to Crete, the land where Icarus and Daedalus made their maiden flight. There, with help from his Cretan neighbours, he attempts to build a woodhopper from scratch and make it fly.
Author : Roger Jinkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843279952
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (799 download)
Download or read book American Ikaros written by Roger Jinkinson and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chance encounter in a small caf on a remote Greek island led Jinkinson on a quest to find out what had happened to Kevin Andrews, the author of "The Flight of Ikaros." The last few years of his life were spent in Athens living as a recluse; he died in 1989, swimming in wild seas off the Greek island of Kythira.
Author : Gonda Van Steen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100381185X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece written by Gonda Van Steen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The previously unpublished memoir of social worker Charles Schermerhorn offers new and eye-opening source material pertaining to the epicenter of the early Cold War: northern Greece. This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s, through the highly perceptive views of a firsthand observer of the turmoil. Schermerhorn’s writings speak most compellingly to the power of human agency amid adverse sociopolitical circumstances. His memoir takes a child-centered and social-historical approach to controversial events, filling a great void in our knowledge. This book looks at a single mid-twentieth-century crisis in multidimensional ways, as a moral, material, social, and institutional calamity that mobilized a motley crew of actors, from new humanitarian aid organizations to press agents, from soldiers to destitute repeat-refugees, from fledgling modern missionaries to foreign diplomats and economic strategists. It was Schermerhorn’s unique achievement to interact with them all, seeking common ground in the arduous task of trying to improve living conditions for children and rural families. But he also realized how easily foreign aid could become a tool of political power and expediency. Focusing on the Greek Civil War, this book will interest readers studying the Cold War, the heated peripheries of proxy wars, and the devastating social fallout of conflicts raging in areas hidden from public view. The global history of humanitarian crises is a burgeoning field, and Schermerhorn was the first to place Greek children and villagers, who themselves left hardly any sources behind, at the center of this urgent and ever-relevant debate.
Author : Costas Stassinopoulos
Publisher : American Hellenic Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781889247014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Modern Greeks written by Costas Stassinopoulos and published by American Hellenic Institute. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping story of struggle and triumph in Greece in 1940s concentrating on three critical phases of Greek history: The war against the Italians and Germans; the national resistance, and the civil war that followed. Stassinopoulos fought in the heroic resistance against the fascist invaders and vividly recounts the sacrifice, honor, and successes of the Greek armed forces and the Greek guerrillas drew the admiration of the free world and kindled hope for Allied powers victory.
Author : David Wills
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443806609
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Mirror of Antiquity written by David Wills and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last century, writers as diverse as William Golding, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, and Laurie Lee, were captivated by Greece. They were joined in their production of travel accounts by hundreds of lesser-known authors. This book exposes how the responses of travellers were conditioned by much more than their own opinions and personalities. The British education system, classical scholarship, and the heroism demonstrated by the Greeks during the Nazi invasion of their country, all contributed to shaping travel narratives. The author analyses the way in which all of the major archaeological sites were described—including the Athenian Acropolis, Delphi, Olympia, Heinrich Schliemann’s Mycenae, and Sir Arthur Evans’ Knossos in Crete. The representation of the modern Greek people, particularly in the period after the Second World War, is also explored at length. Viewed as relics of the past, the Greeks in literature were given the qualities and appearance of their ancestors. David Wills shows how in the hands of twentieth century travel writers, Greece became less a modern country, and more a mirror of antiquity. This book is essential reading for all who are interested in the history of travel and tourism, reception of the classical past, and recent Greek history.
Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466868309
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Balkan Ghosts written by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic. This new edition of Balkan Ghosts includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000 beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myrna Kostash
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 0888647700
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Prodigal Daughter written by Myrna Kostash and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Part spiritual quest, part scholarly inquiry, part travel memoir, Prodigal Daughter is as richly layered as the civilization [Kostash] explores.” —The Edmonton Journal A deep-seated questioning of her inherited religion resurfaces when Myrna Kostash chances upon the icon of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica. A historical, cultural and spiritual odyssey that begins in Edmonton, ranges around the Balkans, and plunges into a renewed vision of Byzantium in search of the Great Saint of the East delivers the author to an unexpected place—the threshold of her childhood church. An epic work of travel memoir, Prodigal Daughter sings with immediacy and depth, rewarding readers with a profound sense of an adventure they have lived. This book will appeal to readers interested in Ukrainian-Canadian culture, the Eastern Church, and medieval history, as well as to fans of Kostash’s bold creative nonfiction. “Prodigal Daughter is at one and the same time an anthropological, cultural, and religious quest on two levels: the personal, autobiographical and the wider sociological and cultural. It is both deeply spiritual and intellectually satisfying.” —Tom Harpur, former author, journalist, TV host “Written in lyrical, vibrant prose, Prodigal Daughter is part travelogue and part memoir—a detailed account of findings from her travels to Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia and Macedonia . . . Winner of the 2011 City of Edmonton Prize, Prodigal Daughter is a thought-provoking book.” —Prairie Fire Review of Books “It may just be her best book to date . . . a shockingly honest and open articulation of a spiritual quest, one that is rich with possibilities.” —Lindy Ledohowski, Canadian Literature
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135456623
Total Pages : 3477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 3477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maura McGinnis
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823939992
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Greece written by Maura McGinnis and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the fascinating course of history from classical Greece to the development of the modern nation in this fascinating portrait of Greek culture. From the most well-known temples and ruins of ancient Athens, Crete, and Delphi, to the contemporary disputes on the Island of Cyprus, students will gain an impressive understanding of Greek culture through the use of thought-provoking primary source material. Greece: A Primary Source Cultural Guide illuminates the origins of Greek mythology, examines ancient historical conflicts, and allows students a chance to glimpse such remarkable structures as the Parthenon and Acropolis alongside a comprehensive examination of the country, its people, and its influential artistic achievements.
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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1409359611
Total Pages : 1163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Greece written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 1163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Greece has been the definitive guidebook to the country for 30 years. This new full-colour edition has been completely revamped and updated - keeping all our best features - detailed background, a journalistic eye for detail - with new user-friendly accommodation and eating reviews and crystal-clear maps. Get the lowdown on Greece's world class attractions from the Acropolis to Crete's Minoan Palaces. Rediscover Athens and find the perfect bars to kick off a night out. Read insider tips on the best beaches to escape the crowds, the choicest accommodation from boutique to backpacker. Get active - hike the Samarian Gorge, windsurf off Corfu or hire a yacht in the Cyclades. As our readers put it "a superb bit of kit - and as essential as a pair of shorts", "what really shines through is the writers love of the subject", "entertaining and a wealth of information".
