[{"id":218165,"title":"The island beyond the coast","subtitle":"Historical Novel: A real-life journey of Hans Christian Andersen, Bayard Taylor and 93 foreign travelers in Athens, Acropolis, Piraeus and Greek islands of the 19th century","description":"Hans Christian Andersen, deeply sorrowful by unexpected events in his life, in the autumn of 1865, decides to travel to Stockholm to meet his beloved friend, Fredrika Bremer. A sad event that occurred shortly after their reunion brought back memories and unforgettable moments he had experienced during his journey in Athens, Acropolis, Piraeus and Greek islands in 1841. The vividness of his inexhaustible imagination is engaged in narrating extraordinary stories of ninety-three other foreign travelers which took place there and he could write about but never did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe American writer and poet, Bayard Taylor, accompanies Hans Christian Andersen in his story-telling. In 1856, after descending from the Arctic zone, Taylor visits him in Copenhagen and then he travels to Greece to fulfill the strong desire he had always had since he was a child. Unfolding his feelings, facts and images of the Greek land, Greece appears to Taylor as the \"football field across Europe\", like the motto written with black paint on the monument of the national hero Karaiskakis located in Piraeus.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b221383.jpg","isbn":"978-960-616-019-6","isbn13":"978-960-616-019-6","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":350,"publication_year":2017,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"20.0","price_updated_at":"2017-10-02","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Το νησί πέρα από την ακτή","publisher_id":638,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":221383,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-island-beyond-coast.json"},{"id":218415,"title":"Loxandra","subtitle":null,"description":"\"Loxandra\" is the story of a Greek family living in Constantinople (Istanbul) from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the First World War. It is not biographical as such, and many of the characters are fictional. Others, including the main character of Loxandra, are real. Constantinople was the author's home during the first years of her life and in her book she conveys the historical events, the customs, the spirit of those times when life for the Greeks of Constantinople was relatively untroubled. The real Loxandra was brought up in the Anatolian tradition of love of good food; culinary delights flowed from her hands and her kitchen as from the horn of plenty, and her generosity and enthusiasm for life and food was not confined to her family but spilled over to whomsoever she had contact with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Greek edition of Loxandra , first published in 1963, has been perhaps the most acclaimed and best-selling popular publication in Greece of the 20th century and remains continuously in print.","image":null,"isbn":"978-960-7120-39-7","isbn13":"978-960-7120-39-7","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":12826,"name":"Romiosyni","books_count":1,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni'","created_at":"2017-10-11T06:00:27.896+03:00","updated_at":"2017-10-11T06:00:27.896+03:00"},"pages":266,"publication_year":2017,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":"2017-10-10","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Λωξάντρα","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":221634,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/loxandra.json"}]