HELLENIC TRAVELLER Guy Pentreath ANCIENT Sites GREECE Greek AEGEAN Troy ATHENS

Description: GOOD to VERY GOOD CONDITION This sale is for a vintage hardback edition entitled “Hellenic Traveller,” subtitled “A Guide to the Ancient Sites of Greece and the Aegean,” by Guy Pentreath, with 25 photographic illustrations and a double-page map. It was published by Faber and Faber Limited, of London, in MCMLXIV and is the 1964 second impression of the 1964 FIRST EDITION. A far-ranging guide by Canon Pentreath, lecturer on Hellenic Cruises and Honorary Secretary of the Hellenic Traveller's Club, covering both the better known places – Athens, Delphi, Delos, Olympia, Knossos, Rhodes etc – as well as many lesser known ones, including many islands, and continuing further afield to Macedonia, Istanbul and sites in Asia Minor. The contents include: · Introduction to Greece · Athens: The Acropolis · Athens: The Agora · Attica: The Mysteries of Eleusis. Sanium. Brauron. Marathon · Delphi: The Spiritual Centre of Greece · Delos: The Holy Island of the Aegean · Olympia and the Games · Europe’s First Great Civilization: Minoan Crete · The Palace of Knossos · Crete: Gortyna. Phaestos. Mallia · Enter the Achaean Greeks: Mycenae. Tiryns. Pylos · Troy: The Nine Cities · In Search of Odysseus in Corfu and Ithaca · Sparta · Lesser Sites in the Peloponnese · A Chapter of Islands · Islands off the Asia Minor Coast – Lesbos. Samos. Patmos. Cos · Two Islands in the North: Samothrace and Thasos · With Alexander the Great at Pella, and St. Paul at Philippi · Pergamum: The City of the Attalids · Rhodes · Turkish Interlude: From the Beaches of Gallipoli to Islanbul · Byzantine Greece · Outlines of Greek Architecture · Outlines of Greek Sculpture · Sorting out the Vases …and more… The book measures 8.75 inches x 5.75 inches x 1.25 inches and has 338 pages + illustrations. The book is in good, neat condition for its age, with minor wear and is a little faded to the spine of the original cloth hardback cover, with a previous owner’s smart privately printed book-plate at the front and no other ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing pages. There is no dust-jacket. A wonderfully illustrated vintage edition. COMBINED POSTAGE - ALL BIDDERS: We offer 20% off the total postage & packing/‘shipping’ for additional items after the cost of the heaviest book – please wait for a combined invoice. Please click on “View Sellers Other Items” towards the top right hand side of this page for other vintage editions. Buyer to pay postage & packing For UK Postage: 2nd Class/Parcels = £3.10; or 1st Class = £3.90 European Union Postage: = 6.95 GB Pounds USA Postage: Air Mail (USA) = 13.45 GB Pounds Rest of the World Postage: Air Mail (Anywhere else in the World) = 10.70 GB Pounds Unwinsbooks always obtain a proof of postage receipt from the Royal Mail. Packages over Royal Mail size rules may be sent by courier (customer will be informed). Goods will be WELL PACKAGED by Unwins Books and dispatched once payment has cleared.

Price: 7 GBP

Location: Shaftesbury, Dorset

End Time: 2025-02-12T00:04:45.000Z

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