Cretan Music, Books about Crete, Crete Arts

Arts, Music and Books about Crete

Arts and Artists in Crete

• Daling Barbara
• Kokkinos Yannis
• Tavladorakis Yorgos (underwater photography)
• Tsantakis Manolis

Cretan & Greek Music

• Mantinades in Crete
• Aristides Chairetis, the mantinades composer of love
• Avissinos or George Sfakianakis, the violin charmer of Crete

Cretan Music CDs

• Aiolia by Mihalis Nikoloudis
• Aksegnioi Perates
• Avissinos, the violin charmer of Crete
• Psarantonis - Markoyannis: Otan se vlepo tragoudo
• Stelios Mpikakis - H Fiyi
• The Star and the Wish by Evanthia Reboutsika
• Romaiki Agora by Manos Hatzidakis

Crete Books and Maps

• Across Crete - Part One: From Khania to Herakleion
• Crete 1960 by John Donat: black and white photography
• Geopolitique de la Grece by Georges Prevelakis
• Greek - English Visual Dictionary, a 600-pages dictionary with pictures and 27,000 Greek words
• Greek Nature Field Guide, a book about plants and animals in Greece
• Guide to Cretan Antiquities by Costis Davaras, Director of the Archaeological Institute of Crete
• History of Crete by Dr. Theoharis Detorakis, Professor at the University of Crete
• I discover Greece by Harry A. Franck
• Maps about Crete and Greece
• Sleepless Giants and Winged Horses by Frieda Bubbi
• Still Life in Crete, a book about living in a village in Crete
• The Cretan Dagger by Nikos Vasilatos
• The making of the Cretan Landscape
• The Rough Guide and The Lonely Planet Guide to Crete, a comparative look at both travel guides
• The White Mountains of Crete
• Where Zeus became a Man (with Cretan shepherds), a book about the shepherds of Mount Ida
• Wild Flowers of Crete
• 39 coffee-houses and one barber-shop. Photos by Jelly Hadjidimitriou