Guest Blog: "Misguided" (A Traveler Grapples with Guidebooks)

Misguided: The Elusive Truth By Elizabeth Marcus, the author of Don't Say a Word, a memoir, and many wonderful essays on travel and other topics. For more of her writing, visit her blog, eLizwrites, and be sure to link to the Archive. Once it was Baedeker or nothing. Now a slew of guidebooks compete for the privilege of answering the traveler�s every question. Usually I take along only one book, but on one trip to Northern Italy many years ago, I packed four: Fodor�s for the basics, Michelin...