A travel book earns its place on the table when it makes you want to go somewhere — and, just as often, when it makes you want to stay where you are and look at it for an hour. Assouline does both. Greek Islands moves from Patmos to Hydra to Amorgos and Santorini, less a guidebook than a long visual essay on what each island has held onto: the cliffside monasteries, the volcanic rims, the white-on-blue light that hasn’t needed updating in three thousand years. Over 200 photographs across 312 pages, with the kind of cinematic detours Assouline does well — The Big Blue shot on Amorgos, Boy on a Dolphin on Hydra, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants on Santorini. The format is the usual: oversized hardcover, made in Italy, weight enough to anchor a stack. The right book for the bottom of a pile or the top of a coffee table. A good gift for the travel connoisseur.
Hardcover 312 pages Over 200 illustrations
Released May 2022
Made in Italy
Greek Islands by Assouline
A travel book earns its place on the table when it makes you want to go somewhere — and, just as often, when it makes you want to stay where you are and look at it for an hour. Assouline does both. Greek Islands moves from Patmos to Hydra to Amorgos and Santorini, less a guidebook than a long visual essay on what each island has held onto: the cliffside monasteries, the volcanic rims, the white-on-blue light that hasn’t needed updating in three thousand years. Over 200 photographs across 312 pages, with the kind of cinematic detours Assouline does well — The Big Blue shot on Amorgos, Boy on a Dolphin on Hydra, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants on Santorini. The format is the usual: oversized hardcover, made in Italy, weight enough to anchor a stack. The right book for the bottom of a pile or the top of a coffee table. A good gift for the travel connoisseur.
Hardcover 312 pages Over 200 illustrations
Released May 2022
Made in Italy
$105.00
