On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece
...Minta ... in his somewhat languid and elliptical fashion ... has drawn an evocative,   impressionistic and sometimes puzzling portrait of the man and his times, reflecting as he does so on the   various meanings of Byron's experience and its connection to his poetry.... his effort to see Byron whole is   a valuable, often absorbing exercise in historical awareness, one that deepens our understanding of the poet   himself and the more universal choices that he faced.  --The New York Times, Richard BernsteinOne longs for a bit more of Minta, clearly a fascinating and  intrepid traveler whose first-person interjections are quirky and  unpredictable. But his story of Byron finally carries its own  weight....On a Voiceless Shoreis moving and memorable.   --The New York Times Book Review, Ted Conover