Abstract

Greece and Its Islands

The article focuses on two books related to Greece, "I Discover Greece," by Harry A. Franck and "Home of Nymphs and Vampires: The Isles of Greece," by George Horton. To jump into a large, shaky automobile bus driven by a man who used to own a poolroom in Cheyenne, Wyoming and ride twenty-five miles from Athens to the battlefield of Marathon; to approach the Acropolis, and see through its entrance gate perhaps the most perfect blue sky in the world; to see Gillette safety razors advertised throughout Greece; to hear the president of the League of Greek Women for Women's Rights say that one aim of the league is "equal pay for equal work"; to stumble on to archaeological remains at most unexpected turns; to see boys at a movie theater in Sparta hold their sides because Charlie Chaplin gets the old ladies at a Colorado health resort drunk, these are some of the things it may mean to travel through Greece.