Useful reading
If you plan to come to Crete and Chania, and you are interested in the Cretan flora, you might find these books helpful :
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Flora of the Cretan area: annotated checklist & atlas (Turland, Chilton & Press, 1993) (out of print and out of stock)
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Flowers of Greece and the Balkans;A Field Guide (Oleg Polunin) (this book is out of print and out of stock, but you can find this book occasionally in secondhand bookstores; this is a real flora to determine the flowers that you find and it is in a nice format)
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Exkursionsflora für Kreta.( Peter Schönfelder, Ralf Jahn) Stuttgart :Ulmer,1995 (this is a real flora to determine the flowers that you find; one of the best, nice format but only in german)
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Wild Flowers of Crete (George Sfikas;1987/2000; paperback)(a compact succinct guide with good photos for the amateur enthusiast. Available in english, greek, french).
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Flowers of Crete (J. Fielding & N. Turland, 2005)
(Excellent book and highly recommended, but too heavy to take with you on a trip) |
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Wild Flowers of Crete (Vangelis Papiomitoglou, 2006: 204 pages, colour illust.,Mediterraneo Editions)
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The Flowers of Crete (by Marina Clauser, Publisher: Bonechi 98 pages , Available in English, French, German and Italian) (describes only about 150 species but with good and large photographs)
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Flowers of Greece and the Aegean (by Huxley and Taylor, 1977, Published by Chatto and Windus, London. Out of print and out of stock, but regularly in second-hand stores. With 483 colour illustrations and 77 line drawings. 660 Species are described. At the right, from top to bottom: frontcover, example of colour pages, example of black-and-white pages
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I Fysi, the magazine of the Greek Society for the Protection of Nature. More information at www.eepf.gr . Most articles are in Greek, but regularly descriptions of of new (or new for Greece) plants are (partially) in English.
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