Blue Guide Greece: The Mainland (Travel Series)

The birthplace of much of Western art, architecture, literature, and theater, Greece offers a rich and fascinating history.

This guide offers excellent coverage of an endlessly intriguing destination, from earliest antiquity to the present. Detailed walks, unrivaled art history, and the most up-to-date practical information on where to stay and eat make this seventh edition a necessary guide for anyone who wants to make the most of their stay to a truly fascinating country.

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.