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Across Crete: Part One: From Khani to Her kleion
Johan (Ed.)
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Description for Across Crete: Part One: From Khani to Her kleion
Paperback. 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 East and West meet and exchange skills and ideas, materials and artefacts. This illustrated book collects writing by visitors from around the world. Editor(s): Bakker, Johan De. Series: World discovery guide books. Num Pages: 288 pages, colour photographs, maps, engravings. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 134 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
World discovery guide books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850433873
SKU
V9781850433873
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About Johan (Ed.)
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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