Athens

In the series "Greece Beyond the Guidebooks", the author takes you beneath the veneer of tourist cliches and dry guidebook facts to expose some of the stories and curiosities which make each locality the unique and fascinating place it is. "Athens ... doesn't fail to give you information ... that many guidebooks find too hot to handle ... plenty of nitty-gritty details ... that cannot fail to amuse." (Athens News) "They are the kind of books that may remind you of your favorite history teacher, the one who told you the interesting and strange pieces of history that the text books left out." (Matt Barrett's Greece Travel Guides) "Tomkinson is the author of a series of books that shed light on a lesser known Greece. ... As old, richly complex folklore elements become crudely oversimplified and the commercialized, plastic modern world tightens its hold, one needs to grab as many of these books as possible" (Kathimerini, English Edition)