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By Stelios Jackson for Hellenic Bookservice, 2001-2003

Anthropology books	Cretan Literature	Guide books and Maps	World War II books	History books

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The main idea of this subdivision of the Hellenic Bookservice's site is to create a medium for the premier love of my life;  the island of Crete, Greece's largest island and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean.  I first visited the "Great Island" with my Grandfather (another "Stelios") when I was 14, back in 1977. Since then I have visited Crete in some capacity or other, every two years and hope to continue doing this for many years to come. There are many better sites than this on Crete and a few of my favourites are listed under   their individual "Nomos" (area) whilst others can be found here . Where I hope this site will help you is in the dissection into areas of the museums and sites within their respective nomoi (areas), the inclusion of some of the books that are available from Hellenic Bookservice and links which are in no way dictated by financial considerations, i.e. I do not get paid in any form for their inclusion, damnit!

Museums and sites can be found within the respective pages to the areas that they belong to. So, Phaestos and Knossos are in Heraklion; Falassarna and Polyrhenia are in Chania; Zakros and Palaikastro are in Lassithi and Eleutherna and Monastiraki are in Rethymnon.

Walking

You can follow the story of my walk from Kato Zakros to Kissamos on "Interkriti", currently being somewhat long windedly serialised. Below is the map, showing my route, from East to West. Chapter one and the first three parts(!) of chapter two, is on-line, just click here.

Throughout the four regions of Crete, I have included information from GN Patrakis' book (which at present we do not stock) on the E4 route. The route, which runs all the way across Crete and is divided into 40 numbered stages with No 1 being the furthest West and No 40 being furthest East at Kato Zagros (not Zaros). Some of the information is not as correct as it should be, however this is a very useful site and was compiled by  George Antonakakis.

Literature

Some great  literature can be found here by clicking on the links to Adam Czarnowski's poetry or or Lars Magnusson's superb travel reminiscings found here. You may wish to print these out, though please remember that they remain copyright of their respective authors.

My Guide to Crete

I have also written a very short travel guide with links to places to stay which can be found  by clicking the menu above,  the nomos (area) of your choice; my pottered "history" of the island  Cretan History is designed to show the diverse influences that have made the Cretans what they are today which is among the warmest and proudest people that can be found on the planet. Have fun. SJ.

Cooking for Crete/The Preveli Project.

As well as the books listed below this is a direct link into "Cooking for Crete", compiled by Judy Adams, with ALL proceeds going towards The Preveli Project. You can order this book securely with a credit card (£3.50 in UK; £4.00 EC; £4.50 ROW), by clicking on the picture.

In these pages I have tried to make various aspects of Crete as accessible as possible. On the top menu you'll find all sorts of links to the various pages contained herein and to other sites which I can personally vouch for. There is no advertising on this site, only useful addresses.

There is a picture of me in my days of "Shakespeare typing! " here