 GREECE TRAVEL STORIES
Any of these books are a perfect companion for your trip to Greece and the Greek Islands, or just for when you fancy a virtual holiday. Take along these novels and stories of travel in Greece to thoroughly capture the mood on your magical journey. They make for perfect reading on the beach or ferries. Click on any of the book covers or titles to find out more or to purhcase from Amazon. Happy travels!
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Travelers Tales Greece: True Stories
The land of gods and goddesses, myth and history, the cradle of western civilization, the birthplace of drama and democracy - no country resonates with history like Greece. This book plumbs that rich past and the equally rich present in a dazzling literary journey for travelers and armchair travelers alike.
From cuisine ("God as Patissier") to culture ("Sappho's Island") and show the breadth of experience of a place, from the rogue, off-the-track traveler's take to the first-class passenger's impressions.
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The Olive Grove: Travels in Greece
Katherine Kizilos brings a personal touch to the Greek isles, traveling from Athens to Chrysambela, the Peloponnesian village where her father lived until, at 17, he was put on a plane to Australia to escape the German occupation. She describes the first meeting with Grandmother Katerina, who spent the evening kissing her hand and stroking her hair, and the wide, operatic views overlooking the Corinthian Gulf. Kizilos's trip also takes in Syros, Thíra, Patmos, Ikaria, and Lesbos.
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A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece
For many, Greece is a land lost in time. It conjures up images of the looming Parthenon with its pillars of marble and the timeless whitewashed buildings of its parched islands glinting against a backdrop of the crystal blue Mediterranean. But ask about contemporary Greece and most people draw a blank. In Dinner with Persephone, poet Patricia Storace does a compelling job of filling in this empty canvas.
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A Lone Red Apple
This is a delightful novel that takes the reader on an enchanting, magical journey to the white islands of the Cyclades.
Told in a whimsical way, it is one of the most refreshing, original love stories ever about Greece and its immortal gods and goddesses. This novel represents a new genre. Set in modern times in the timeless land of the gods.
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Dinner with Persephone
For many, Greece is a land lost in time. It conjures up images of the looming Parthenon with its pillars of marble and the timeless whitewashed buildings of its parched islands glinting against a backdrop of the crystal blue Mediterranean. But ask about contemporary Greece and most people draw a blank. In Dinner with Persephone, poet Patricia Storace does a compelling job of filling in this empty canvas.
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The Summer of My Greek Taverna: A Memoir
As recorded in the brief summary above, the book follows the author's adventure one summer trying to run a Greek taverna on the Agean island of Patmos. The book recounts how the author set up shop, ran it daily with his dubious Greek partner, and finally discovered what his dream really meant to him. The narrative seems to take place before Patmos become a hot tourist location (before 1990).
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A House in Corfu
The story of an unspoiled island and an English family making a home by the Aegean Sea.In the early 1960s Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there.This book is the story of that house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous.
It is also the story of the couple who have been at Rovinia since the feast in the grove that followed the roof-raising-Maria, a miraculous cook and the presiding spirit of the house, and her husband, Thodoros-and of the inhabitants of the local village, high on the hill above the bay.
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The Priest Fainted
Like a promise, the peaks rise in the distance, garlanded in gorges and wild onions, goats and streams." This closely autobiographical novel follows the fortunes of a 21-year-old Greek-American woman as she returns to the land of her foremothers and reimagines their lives and her own in terms of classic Greek myths.
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This Way to Paradise--Dancing on the Tables
THE GREEK AMERICAN
..a carnival of a book that is a non-stop read and which cannot totally be described as either a travel book, a personal memoir, or a cultural study of changing times in Greece.
It is all of these and more.
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