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The Greek Islands First Published: London, Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1978. Also Published: New York, Viking Penguin Books, Ltd., 1978, Durrell's book of the islands of Greece, a landscape with which he had become familiar between the 1930s and 1950s, was an opportunity to revisit those places he had come to know twenty to fourty years before, as well as an opportunity to visit those which he had not previously known. Illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, this book is a systematic examination of the many islands of the Aegean Sea. While Durrell's knowledge of Greece proves as insightful and entertaining as ever, this book is perhaps not to the quality of his previous island books. It is divided into the following sections: The Ionian Islands The Southern Aegean The Southern Sporades The Northern Sporades The Northern Aegean The Cyclades The Home Group An appendix is included, listing the flowers and festivals of the Greek Islands.