Book Mykonos Muse

Located in the Cyclades and surrounded by the blue lagoon water of the Aegean Sea, lies Mykonos, whitewashed and dotted with windmills, the island of the winds. This ancient island and those that surround it, mythologized as the bodies of the gods slain by Hercules in ancient times, are older than their legend and have been home to many cultures for several millennia. With a population of only ten thousand inhabitants, the "Ibiza of Greece" has become prized for its magnificent architecture, its welcoming and open-minded people and its heavenly beaches. The sands of its shores have captured the imagination and hearts of titans of industry, artists and party people from all over the world, marking this island as a stable and primordial cosmopolitan destination on the jet-set circuit.

This book Mykonos Muse fromAssouline chronicles the culture and society that has defined the island over the past century, from its days as a hideaway for luminaries and elites such as Le Corbusier and Antonis Benakis, to its period as a sanctuary for the gay community, to its status as the preeminent party scene, and all the while delighting the reader with the ruins and myths that lurk within.