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Across Crete: From Khania to Herakleion - Couverture souple

 
9781850433873: Across Crete: From Khania to Herakleion
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1850433879 ISBN 13 : 9781850433873
Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2006

Synopsis

The island of Crete was home to Europe's earliest civilization. Since the time of the Minoans, 4000 years ago, it has served as a crossroads where the Eastern and Western worlds have met and exchanged skills and ideas, materials and artefacts. At Knossos, with its gigantic palace complex where the legendary Minos was king and where Theseus slew the Minotaur, we find one of the world's wondrous historical sites. From successive waves of rulers - the Greeks, Romans, Arabs and the Empires of Byzantium, Venice and Ottomans - Crete has aquired layered strata of history unlike any other land. It is this heritage - as well as the astonishing natural beauty of the place - that has drawn visitors from around the world. Their writings are collected in this illustrated book, which is the first of three works together spanning the great island from east to west.

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À propos de l'auteur

Johan de Bakker is a writer specialising in the Middle East and North Africa who has travelled extensively in Crete since the 1970s and studied its history in the early Modern Age

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Éditeur
I.B. Tauris
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1850433879
ISBN 13 
9781850433873
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
Bakker Johan De
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