There is a land called Crete in the midst of the wine-dark sea, a fair land and a rich, begirt with water, and therein are many men innumerable, and ninety cities.

Homer The Odyssey, Book XIX, translated by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang
The Greek Islands hardcover by Assouline, in burnt-orange linen with sand and white lettering and three blue, sand and white vases, its spine visible.

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Greek Islands

Assouline

The Aegean, island by island, from Patmos to Hydra.

Linen hardcover

25 × 33 cm

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An open spread from Greek Islands: a woman in a long black dress stepping through a whitewashed doorway towards the sea, beside a row of white windmills with red roofs.