The Last Monk of the Strofades: Memories from an Unknown Greek Island

by Katerina Lymperopoulou and Robert McCabe

The Strofades: two small, flat, windswept islands rising out of the Ionian Sea, known to the ancient Greeks as the home of the terrible Harpies, and to most modern Greeks simply unknown. On the larger of the two islets, Stamfani, stands a massive fortified monastery, founded as early as the thirteenth century, for centuries a refuge for honest seafarers and a target for pirates and Turkish raiders. In its heyday, this imposing compound was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789213354
• ISBN13: 9780789213358
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.4"