Product Description

This text aims to help the visitor to Crete understand its landscape. The authors explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create today's landscape. They explain the formation and ecology of Crete's mountains and coastline, and examine contemporary threats to the island's natural beauty. The book draws on a range of evidence - field observations, archaeology, ancient and medieval documents, place-names, tree-rings and standing buildings. It should be of interest to general readers and travellers with an interest in Crete's landscape, natural history and history; and to students and scholars of Mediterranean landscape history, geography, historical ecology and archaeology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #418596 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Customer Reviews

Crete under the spotlight
This is the best guide about the island and it's inhabitants in the market today. Not a convenient size to carry around
in your backpack but a wealth of information about geology,flaura and fauna,people,traditional architecture and much more.
Definetly you are going to learn something new about
the island,as this book covers such a wide range of subjects and time.

If you only buy one book about the Cretan landscape, make sure it is this book!
The detail and the breadth of knowledge would be overawing if the book were not so approachable in its layout and use of accessible language. Many eye-opening concepts and ideas which could potentially be transferable to other parts of Greece with similarly interesting results. A great introduction (for me at least) to the concept of an archaeology of landscape. I highly recommend it.