Download or read book Top 10 Crete written by Robin Gauldie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Crete will lead you straight to the very best on offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights, or want to find the best nightspots; this guide is the perfect companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 museums to the Top 10 events and festivals - there's even a list of the Top 10 things to avoid. The guide is divided by area with restaurant reviews for each, as well as recommendations for hotels, bars and places to shop. You'll find the insider knowledge every visitor needs and explore every corner effortlessly with DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Crete. DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Crete - showing you what others only tell you. Now available in ePub format.
Download or read book Insight Guides Pocket Crete Travel Guide eBook written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Pocket Guides: ideal itineraries and top travel tips in a pocket-sized package. Now with free eBook, and a pull-out map. Compact, concise, and packed with essential information about Where to Go and What to Do, this is an ideal on-the-move companion when you're exploring Crete Covers Top Ten Attractions, including Hania's scenic harbour, the Minoan palace at Knossos, the ancient remains of Gortys and the Toplou Monastery, plus suggestions for a Perfect Tour, including the lakeside nightlife at Agios Nikolaos, sightseeing in Rethymno and hiking in the Samaria Gorge Offers an insightful overview of landscape, history and culture Contains an invaluable pull-out map, and essential practical information on everything from Eating Out to Getting Around Includes an innovative extra that's unique in the market - all Insight Pocket Guides come with a free eBook Inspirational colour photography throughout Sharp design and colour-coded sections make for an engaging reading experience About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
Download or read book Berlitz Crete Pocket Guide written by Berlitz and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlitz Pocket Guide Crete gives you reliable, user-friendly detail with stunning colour photography to uncover this important Mediterranean island, telling you all you need to know about its attractions and rich archaeology: from the 1700BC Minoan palace at Knossos, mythical home of the Minotaur, to the lovely Venetian harbour of Hani, hiking amid the wild beauty of the Samari Gorge, and beaches galore. Handy maps on the cover flaps help you get around. To inspire you, the book offers a rundown of Crete's Top 10 Attractions, followed by an itinerary for a Perfect Day. The What to Do chapter is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from nightlife and shopping to sports. The book provides all the essential background information, including an overview of Crete's complex history and successive civilisations, and an Eating Out chapter covering Greek and Cretan cuisine. There are carefully chosen listings of the best hotels and restaurants and an A-Z of all the practical information you'll need.
Download or read book Crete Pocket Guide written by Jack Altman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crete Insight Pocket Guide written by Insight Guides and published by Insight Pocket Guides. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Pocket Guides: ideal itineraries and top travel tips in a pocket-sized package. Now with free eBook, and a pull-out map. - Compact, concise, and packed with essential information about Where to Go and What to Do, this is an ideal on-the-move companion when you're exploring Crete - Covers Top Ten Attractions, including Hania's scenic harbour, the Minoan palace at Knossos, the ancient remains of Gortys and the Toplou Monastery, plus suggestions for a Perfect Tour, including the lakeside nightlife at Agios Nikolaos, sightseeing in Rethymno and hiking in the Samaria Gorge - Offers an insightful overview of landscape, history and culture - Contains an invaluable pull-out map, and essential practical information on everything from Eating Out to Getting Around - Includes an innovative extra that's unique in the market - all Insight Pocket Guides come with a free eBook - Inspirational colour photography throughout - Sharp design and colour-coded sections make for an engaging reading experience About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
Download or read book Berlitz Crete Pocket Guide written by Berlitz and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlitz Pocket Guide Crete is a concise, full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the very best that this sun-kissed island has to offer. The Where To Go chapter details all the key sights: start in bustling Iraklio and its must-see treasure-trove archeological museum then head to the ancient site of Knossos the see the reproductions in situ. Go for a seafood lunch in postcard-perfect Hania and end your stay with a trek down the stunning Samaria Gorge. To inspire you, the book offers a rundown of the Top 10 Attractions in the island, followed by an itinerary for a Perfect Tour of Crete. The What to Do chapter is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time: the best places to shop for leather sandals or to listen to traditional Cretan music as well as the best beaches for watersports. You'll also be armed with background information, including a brief history of the island and an Eating Out chapter covering its wonderfully traditional cuisine. There are carefully chosen listings of the best hotels and restaurants, and an A-Z to equip you with all the practical information you will need.
Download or read book The Palaces of Crete written by James Walter Graham and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desire to recreate Minoan palaces, villas, and houses of the Late Bronze Age inspired the author of this book to undertake an eight year research program that has radically modified our conception of the appearance of Cretan dwellings. He not only interprets the use of the rooms that partially survive but reconstructs the guest suites and banquet halls of the vanished upper storeys. Written both as a preparation for a visit to Crete and as an actual guide to the sites," the book is prefaced with an account of the island's geography, history, and culture in antiquity, and packed with illustrations including photographs, plans, reconstructions, and a map of the island showing the sites. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book A History of Crete written by Chris Moorey and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, Crete has been of paramount strategic importance, thanks to its location close to the junction of three continents and the heart of the eastern Mediterranean. It’s perhaps not surprising, therefore, that when they ruled Crete, the Greeks called it “Megalónisos” or the “Great Island.” Yet the island has been ruled for much of its history by foreign invaders—including Mycenaeans, Dorians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Venetians, Ottoman Turks, and, briefly, the Third Reich. In A History of Crete, Chris Moorey explores the history of the Great Island from mythological Crete until today and sheds light on how the Cretans themselves have interacted with their conquerors. A History of Crete portrays the Cretans as fierce lovers of freedom who worked around and with the influence of foreign rule on their culture. In an engaging and lively style, Moorey emphasizes and contrasts two periods at either end of these three thousand years of domination: the dazzling apogee of the Minoan civilization from the Bronze Age, representing the first advanced civilization in Europe, and the brief period of autonomy before union with Greece at the beginning of the twentieth century. A History of Crete shows how the history of the contested island affected its people and made them to the Cretans of today.
Download or read book The Golden Step written by Christopher Somerville and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he traded the usual comforts and certainties for a real physical and mental challenge, with no mobile phone or other technological aids. The only plan for his journey was to begin in the East at Easter and finish at Whitsun in the extreme West, at the Monastery of the Golden Step, whose gold step, legend says, can only be seen by those who have purged themselves into purity. During his 300-mile walk, he tackled four mountain ranges, high slopes and the numerous gorges of the West. Speaking only basic Greek and trying to follow a poorly way-marked path, he had to rely on his own instincts when climbing mountain passes and crossing high plateaux, farming and shepherding country, where villages are scarce and each night's accommodation was uncertain. He saw a Crete few ever encounter.
Download or read book Berlitz Crete Pocket Guide written by Berlitz International, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Berlitz Pocket Guide Crete Travel Guide eBook written by Berlitz Publishing and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlitz Pocket Guide Crete is a concise,full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography tohighlight the very best that this sun-kissed island has to offer. The Where ToGo chapter details all the key sights: start in bustling Iraklio and itsmust-see treasure-trove archeological museum then head to the ancient site ofKnossos the see the reproductions in situ. Go for a seafood lunch inpostcard-perfect Hania and end your stay with a trek down the stunning SamariaGorge. To inspire you, the book offers a rundownof the Top 10 Attractions in the island, followed by an itinerary for a PerfectTour of Crete. The What to Do chapter is a snapshot of ways to spend your sparetime: the best places to shop for leather sandals or to listen to traditionalCretan music as well as the best beaches for waterspouts. You'll also be armed with backgroundinformation, including a brief history of the island and an Eating Out chaptercovering its wonderfully traditional cuisine. There are carefully chosenlistings of the best hotels and restaurants, and an A-Z to equip you with allthe practical information you will need.
Download or read book Lonely Planet Crete 7 written by Andrea Schulte-Peevers and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet's Crete is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stroll along Hania's Venetian Harbour, laze in Elafonisi's clear turquoise waters, and hike dazzling Samaria Gorge - all with your trusted travel companion.
Download or read book Winds of Crete written by David MacNeil Doren and published by Efstathiadis Group/Bay Foreing Langua. This book was released on 1981 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a fresh, wholly personal, frank yet affectionate account of six years living on Crete, travelling all over the island, meeting all kinds of people and everywhere encountering the homeric island hospitality.
Download or read book Crete written by Antony Beevor and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a new introduction. 'The best book we have got on Crete' Observer The Germans expected their airborne attack on Crete in 1941 - a unique event in the history of warfare - to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. They had no idea that the British, using Ultra intercepts, knew their plans and had laid a carefully-planned trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war, but a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle round. Nor did the conflict end there. Ferocious Cretan freedom fighters mounted a heroic resistance, aided by a dramatic cast of British officers from Special Operations Executive.
Download or read book One Summer in Crete written by Nadia Marks and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gloriously sunny book of family secrets, lost loves and self-discovery, One Summer in Crete by Nadia Marks is an engrossing holiday read. ‘If you don’t think you’re about to get to Crete this is the next best thing . . . we’ve never needed books of this kind more’ – Vanessa Feltz Calli’s world has fallen apart – her relationship is suddenly over and her chances of starting a family are gone. So when she’s sent to write a magazine article about the Greek island of Ikaria, it seems like the perfect escape. Travelling to Crete, where her family is from, Calli soon realizes there is more to discover than paradise beaches and friendly locals. And, when her aunt Froso begins to share the story of her own teenage heartache, the love, betrayal and revenge she reveals might just change Calli’s life forever . . . Travel further with Secrets Under the Sun and Between the Orange Groves by Nadia Marks.
Download or read book Crete written by John Freely and published by New Amsterdam Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freely provides detailed maps and itineraries for extended excursions. Sized to fit with ease into a backpack or a glove box, this useful compendium is suitable for all travelers to that part of the world--Booklist
Download or read book Frommer s Crete Day by Day written by Jos Simon and published by Frommers. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The itinerary-based Day by Day guides show you the best of everything in a time-efficient way, perfect for travellers who want to tailor their trip Sightseeing highlights include Samaria Gorge, Europe's longest gorge and one of the most spectacular in the world; and Knossos Palace, one of the most significant archaeological sites in Crete. Crete is one of the most popular Greek Islands and has the longest summers in Greece; it's a great destination for culture vultures as well as those interested in nature. Coverage of a variety of accommodations - from contemporary villas and luxury hotels to rustic accommodations in agro-tourism farms. For adventure seekers, Crete offers the perfect terrain for mountain biking, hiking, and horse-riding, with many points of interests along the way.
