Recommended Reading

Mani Trip:

• Mani - Patrick Leigh Fermor (very erudite and detailed, so more interesting to read when you are there)
• Deep into Mani - Peter Greenhalgh/Edward Eliopoulos (out of print, but a fabulous insight into the place - highly recommended)

Pindos Trip:

• The Unwritten Places - Tim Salmon
• Eleni - Nicholas Gage
• Roumeli - Patrick Leigh Fermor
• The Zagorohoria (Explorer guide)

Amorgos & Naxos Trip:

• Local guidebooks available on arrival

General Reading:

• The Greeks - James Pettifer (social critique of the culture, politics etc)
• A Traveller's History of Greece - Timothy Botswain/Colin Nicholson
• The Colossus of Maroussi - Henry Miller

Mythology:

• Any - especially Robert Graves' book.
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton also very readable.