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For this reason, many of us prefer to supplement our real-life journeys with heavy doses of armchair travel. \u003cbr\u003eThe armchair traveller can journey in an age when there was more to travel than comparing the airport shops or the Macdonalds in different countries -in an age when to travel really was to encounter strange and exotic ways of life. \u003cbr\u003eFor centuries Greece has drawn foreigners in quest of its history and culture. Many wrote of a world which has since passed away. Yet their accounts of what they saw and can still be enjoyed today. \u003cbr\u003e\"Travellers' Greece\" brings to the reader the pick of the best of the writings of some of these visitors to each distinctive region of this diverse and fascinating country, spanning over three centuries. Valuable historical records in their own right, these narratives are also marvellously entertaining. They depict ways of life which have passed away for ever. The also frequently betray, in the traveller himself, depths of egocentricity and prejudice which are no longer possible to educated people. Whether we admire the beauties of a vanished landscape, deplore the hard realities of lost ways of life, or smile at the smug self-absorption unwittingly revealed by the narrator, we are always engaged and entertained.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b102376.jpg","isbn":"960-87186-4-3","isbn13":"978-960-87186-4-7","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":605,"publication_year":2006,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"32.0","price_updated_at":"2005-12-12","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1547,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":102376,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/travellers-greece.json"},{"id":111227,"title":"Athens","subtitle":null,"description":"In the series \"Greece Beyond the Guidebooks\", the author takes you beneath the veneer of tourist cliches and dry guidebook facts to expose some of the stories and curiosities which make each locality the unique and fascinating place it is.\u003cbr\u003e\"Athens ... doesn't fail to give you information ... that many guidebooks find too hot to handle ... plenty of nitty-gritty details ... that cannot fail to amuse.\" (Athens News)\u003cbr\u003e\"They are the kind of books that may remind you of your favorite history teacher, the one who told you the interesting and strange pieces of history that the text books left out.\" (Matt Barrett's Greece Travel Guides)\u003cbr\u003e\"Tomkinson is the author of a series of books that shed light on a lesser known Greece. ... As old, richly complex folklore elements become crudely oversimplified and the commercialized, plastic modern world tightens its hold, one needs to grab as many of these books as possible\" (Kathimerini, English Edition)","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b113808.jpg","isbn":"960-88087-9-0","isbn13":"978-960-88087-9-9","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":7416,"name":"Greece Beyond the Guide Books","books_count":1,"tsearch_vector":"'beyond' 'books' 'greece' 'guide' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:56:30.450+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:56:30.450+03:00"},"pages":237,"publication_year":2006,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"20.0","price_updated_at":"2006-11-17","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1547,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":113808,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/athens-649720c4-71a6-4b59-9e68-403eb940ce0e.json"},{"id":111481,"title":"How Plays Tell Stories","subtitle":"Studying Drama as Literature","description":"\"How Plays Tell Stories: Studying Drama as Literature\" has been especially written for Language A1 students of the International Baccalaureate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- A practical guide to all aspects of the study of plays as literature, it emphasizes how plays are written for performance;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Refers to a wide-range of examples from many different periods and different cultures;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Includes specially devised writing exercises designed to help students see drama from the dramatist's point of view;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Relates the study of drama to the IB Theory of Knowledge course;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Includes a comprehensive glossary of drama-related terms.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b114062.jpg","isbn":"960-88087-6-6","isbn13":"978-960-88087-6-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":125,"publication_year":2006,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"25.0","price_updated_at":"2006-11-27","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1547,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":114062,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/how-plays-tell-stories.json"},{"id":111489,"title":"Where Art and Science Entwine","subtitle":null,"description":"The book can be used as a stimulus for discussing:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- the strengths and weaknesses of he different ways of knowing\u003cbr\u003e- how important personal experience was to the author's development of her art\u003cbr\u003e- how important perception was to her in the development of her art\u003cbr\u003e- how successful she was at communicating the experience of creating art work\u003cbr\u003e- how art and science differ\u003cbr\u003e- how artists and scientists typically conduct themselves in their work\u003cbr\u003e- how far personal attributes affect the work of an artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA professional research scientist and International Baccalaureate teacher who is an artist in her spare time uses her experience on both sides of the intellectual divide to explain, in an objective and scientific manner, how her personal experience led to the development of her art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b114070.jpg","isbn":"960-88087-8-2","isbn13":"978-960-88087-8-2","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":7430,"name":"Studies for Theory of Knowledge","books_count":1,"tsearch_vector":"'for' 'knowledge' 'of' 'studies' 'theory'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:56:37.991+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:56:37.991+03:00"},"pages":70,"publication_year":2006,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"20.0","price_updated_at":"2006-11-27","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1547,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":114070,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/where-art-and-science-entwine.json"}]