Go Your Own Way: How Guidebooks Shaped Travel through History

For a time, back in the 1960s, the big-name travel guidebook writers were bona fide celebrities. In 1967, Nora Ephron wrote a lengthy profile for the New York Times of Arthur Frommer, the fast-rising author whose then 10-year-old Europe on Five Dollars a Day would lead some 350,000 Americans around the Continent that year.