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Παρουσίαση

In Greece, shipowners are enveloped in myth. Shipowners in the age of wood and sail are now shrouded by the mantle of time. Shipowners in the age of metal, coal and oil, the Greek tycoons, are identified with silence and mystery, with their prominent presence on the international stage and their simultaneous absence from their land of origin. And not only in Greece. For the English write too, about their own shipping enterprises, that 'shipping is a very private business'. This is so because the shipping enterprise, whether in Chios in Greece or Glasgow in Scotland or Bergen in Norway, was and is a family business. And the family is a private affair. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

The relationship with the sea
IONIAN SEA
- Cephalonia
- Ithaka
- Zakynthos
- Missolonghi and Aitoliko
- Galaxidi
CENTRAL AEGEAN
- Andros
- Melos
- Mykonos
- Santorini
- Sifnos
- Syros
NORTHEAST AEGEAN
- Chios
- Oinousses
- Psara
- Lesbos
- Samos
- Constantinople and the Dardanelles
- Smyrna and the Asia Minor Coast
SOUTHEAST AEGEAN
- Patmos
- Kasos
- Leros
- Kalymnos, Symi and Chalki
- Kastelorizo
NORTHWEST AEGEAN
- Skopelos
- Skiathos
- Eyboea
- Thessalian Shipping
SOUTHEAST AEGEAN
- Hydra
- Spetses
- East Coast of the Peloponnese
- Piraues
Sources - Bibliography
Index of Shipowners