Beer .:. Marvelous Greece

Beer, Ethel S.,
Marvelous Greece. An Appreciation of the Country and It's People. New York: Walker and Company, 1967. 272 Seiten mit Abbildungen, Literaturverzeichnis und Register. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag.

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* Schutzumschlag mit Rissen.
Bestell-Nr.160616

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Beer | Griechenland | Ethnologie | Voelkerkunde

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Not often can a book on Greece inform the traveller about fascinations hidden beyond the beaten path and at the same time advise him how to explore them in leisure, convenience and comfort. MARVELOUS GREECE will reward many readers—-but perhaps especially those who are adventurous in spirit but prohibited for one reason or another from "roughing it" as they once might have.
Miss Beer identifies central nodes from which the traveller may venture out to see and explore the many regional characters of Greece, ancient and modern. Athens and its environs, the wellknown classical Peloponnesus (and the otber Peloponnesus), the Byzantine North and the Roman North, Crete, the Dodecanese and other island groups— all are treated with the insight of long personal experience and from the background of a lifetime's reading.
This book is the fruition of forty years of travel and study in a land whose history and mythology are richly interwoven in its living present. It is an introduction to the vivid heart of a people. It is written by a friend of the country, a friend who has taken part in ancient Greek plays and modern Greek weddings, and who understands the forms of the people's expression of themselves.
In a study at once anecdotal and informative, Miss Beer offers the reader the opportunity to share in her own time-deepened quest of the land, the people, and their heritage of human greatness.

Ethel S. Beer was born a New Yorker but has been a world traveller since the age of five. She has been drawn back to Greece for long visits again and again, and she now considers that country, especially Athens, her second home. She loves Greece more with each trip, and each one increases the circle of Greek friends she will return to. Her 1966 visit was to shepherd the translation of her book, Working Mothers and the Day Nursery, into Greek and to see her "Save the Children" foster daughter, who is now attending Athens University. Miss Beer's articles on Greece and things Greek have appeared in numerous publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, The Hellenic Review, The New York Herald Tribune, Atlantis, Krikos, and Athene.

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