Title: Lifting the veil off Negroponte
Review: Sara Wheeler's merits as a potent travel writer and her powers of description are obvious. Her displaying of the multiple facets of this multiethnic island (Euboea is the Latinized name for Evvia, which in turn was known during the 273 year long Lombard and Venetian rule as NegroPonte, and then during the Ottomans as Egriboz) brings justice, finally, to Euboea, prior known rather as a narrow unadulterated Greek outpost.She describes also the Arvanite (Mediaeval Albanian) community of Southern Euboea who stubbornly clings to their archaic patois. These people were invited in Euboea by the Venetians (and they inhabit to-day the romantic Cavo D'Oro aka Cape Kafireas)..Wheeler's work is one of pioneer and she deserves aplauses..
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