Greece: a land rich in deep history, origin of Western philosophy and political thought, founder of schools of natural sciences and creator of the very concept of literature, a land whose glory is so distant that it seems mythic, long eclipsed by a slow decline. Part open-air museum of antiquity and part crucible of the problems that we all face in modern times, a trip to Greece cannot help but be both.

However, this book doesn’t pretend to cover the complexities and contrasts that is Greece, but instead is a short visual travelogue beginning in Athens, stretching to ancient sites such as Delphi, Olympia, Mycenae, Nemea and Corinth, before heading across the waters to Crete, Santorini, Mykonos, and Delos. It is meant to be a pleasant journey rather than a contentious one, with more store set by capturing the beauty of Greece via photography, than by documenting its travails. The latter, though a worthy pursuit, would be a different trip and a different book.