Blue Guide Greece the Mainland - Softcover

Marker, Sherry; Pettifer, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905131100 ISBN 13: 9781905131105

Publisher: Blue Guides, 2006

Synopsis

SPECIAL REPRINT EDITION: Blue Guide Greece The Mainland 2007, OF WHICH THIS IS A REPRINT. The latest edition of this Blue Guides classic, updated by Sherry Marker, a lecturer at Smith College, Massachusetts, and James Pettifer, an academic and expert on the Balkans. The guide amply covers mainland Greece, the cradle of western civilization. Updated information on developments in archaeology and scholarship make this the essential guide for visitors.

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About the Author

Sherry Marker took her BA in Classics at Harvard, an MA in Ancient History at the University of California at Berkeley, studied archaeology at the american school of Classical Studies in Athens. She has worked on the excavations at Mortgantina, Sicily and Sardis, Turkey. She has written on Greece for the New York Times travel section, Travel and Leisure, Berlitz Travellers and Frommer's. She divides her time between Massachusetts and the Peloponnese. She is co-author of this edition, in which she provided the chapters on Athens, Attica, the Peloponnese, and parts of Boetica and Phocis. James Pittifer is a professor at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom and an author and broadcaster on southeast Europe. He haswritten extensively from the region for The Times, The World Today, The Times Literary Supplement and other publications. He is co-author of this edition, in which he provided the chapters on Epirus, Thessaly, Macedonia, Thrace, and parts of Central Greece.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blue Guides
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905131100
• ISBN 13: 9781905131105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736