Fodor's Athens the Collected Traveler

by Barrie Kerper

Book Overview

If you want a guide full of exact prices and hours. you've picked up the wrong book. If you want to know a lot about where you're going. you'll love The Collected Traveler. For 20 years, Barrie Kerper... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400050057
• ISBN13: 9781400050055
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications
• Length: 531 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Another first-rate selection by Kerper

Barrie Kerper says she has been keeping travel files in cardboard cartons for many years: cuttings, clippings, articles, leaflets. Here she selects from what she has on Greece and the result is dynamite but instead of exploding, it delights and impresses. The book includes material on Athens, the island of the Aegean, and the Poeloponnese. Some selections were written by experienced veterans in the art of travel writing (Robert Kaplan, Patricia Storace)and others by less important but still excellent writers. My own favorite section is the one about the Islands, which includes articles on Patmos, Rhodes, Chios and others. Kerper accompanies each selction with a brief piece about its author and the genesis of the article. The book also contains several carefully annotated bibliographies, presumably prepared by also by Kerper. A fine book.