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Mouth-watering delicacies from Greece

The essence of Greek cuisine is the use of fresh, seasonal ingredients. Dishes are designed to showcase the bounty of the season, enhanced with fragrant herbs and spices, such as oregano, parsley, cinnamon and cloves. The preparation of dishes for various annual celebrations brings the family together and these are occasions for sharing passion, fun and wonderful...

The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide The Greek Islands is your indispensible guide to these exciting islands. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the Greek Islands' must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all their major towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions...

Whatever your budget DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Greece: Athens & the Mainland will lead you straight to the best attractions this dynamic region has to offer.

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Greek Islands Travel Guide will lead you straight to the best attractions these picturesque islands have to offer. Whether you're looking for a hotel to suit your budget, beaches, picture-postcard villages or the best restaurants in which to sample delicious greek cuisine; this guide is the perfect pocket-sized companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists – from the Top 10 myths...

'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine . . . a country where we can grow.'
'Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening.
'I had a letter from George this morning – he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to Greece?'
'Very well, dear, if you like,' said Mother unguardedly.

Greek-Australian Maria Benardis welcomes you to her table to enjoy Greek food the way her family has always done.

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Athens will lead you straight to the best attractions this region has to offer. Whether you're looking for unmissable museums and ancient sites, alluring nearby islands, night-time hot-spots, shopping streets, liveliest festivals or want to find the best restaurants and tavernas in Athens; this guide is the perfect pocket-sized companion.

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Crete will lead you straight to the very best of this, the largest of the Greek Islands. Whether you're looking for peaceful places to stay, world-class beaches or the finest restaurants; this guide is your perfect pocket-sized companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists – from the Top 10 spectacular areas of natural beauty to the Top 10 best traditional tavernas...

The best of Athens in your pocket with DK Eyewitness Pocket Map & Guide Athens.

The Pocket Rough Guide Athens is your essential guide to Greece's capital; covering all the key sights, hotels, restaurants, shops and bars you need to know about. Slim, stylish and utterly pocketable, it comes with a full-colour pull-out map to help you find your way around - the only map of its kind to be marked with every single listing from the guide.

The Rough Guide Map Crete is the perfect starting-point for exploring Crete, pin-pointing the best that this diverse island has to offer. It leads you to every corner of this spectacular countryside, from the highly-developed and cosmopolitan cities of the north-coast, to the untouched mountains and gorges, typically Cretan villages and idyllic beaches that make up the rest of the island.

Now in its 8th edition, The Rough Guide to the Greek Islands is the definitive guidebook to this fantastic region. This new full-colour edition has been completely revamped and updated, keeping all our best features like the detailed background and a journalistic eye for detail but with, new user-friendly accommodation, eating reviews and crystal-clear maps.

DK Eyewitness Pocket Map and Guide Athens is your essential guide to one of the world's oldest cities. The book divides the city into four central areas and covers the city area by area.

Packed with beautiful illustrations of this historical city, providing information on all the highlights, it includes a survival guide, a day trip section to plan your visits to the major sites and practical information...

Whether you are travelling first class or on a limited budget, the DK Eyewitness Top 10 Corfu & the Ionian Islands will lead you straight to the very best these islands have to offer. Dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 bays and beaches to the Top 10 myths & legends, museums and galleries, spectacular festivals and events, splendid cathedral and monasteries, top restaurants, picture postcard...

Tightly edited and ruthlessly researched, these guides include the ultimate places to visit and discover the best of design, art and architecture, to sleep, eat, drink, shop, exercise and relax, selected by the experts at Wallpaper* magazine.

THIS IS A TRAVEL BOOK IN THE GRAND SENSE.  THE HORIZONS IT EXPLORES ARE OF LAND AND SEA, AND OF THE MIND.

Greek Pilgrimage is a meditation on classical Greece, journeying through its great sites, monuments, and cultural works. On the way, it examines the country's pivotal role in the foundation of the modern world. We who are born into the West are all Greeks. Here lie our roots.

Vefa's Kitchen  is the first truly comprehensive bible of Greek food in English. Rapidly increasing in popularity, Greek cuisine is simple to prepare, healthy and delicious, and, more than most other cuisines, bears all the hallmarks of the rich cultural history of the land and sea from which it is are drawn. It is the original Mediterranean cuisine, where olive oil, figs, grapes, garlic, bread...

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Athens is your essential guide to one of the world's oldest cities. Whether it's the Top 10 museums and ancient sites, the atmospheric city walks, the alluring islands, the night time hot-spots, the enthralling legends of ancient Greece or shopping you're after, name it; Athens has everything to offer.