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Mani
A glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination: mountainous Greece by the master traveller and writer who brought you A TIME OF GIFTS.
A glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination: mountainous Greece by the master traveller and writer who brought you A TIME OF GIFTS.
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For the first time in John Murray B-format paperback, this is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a barely-written part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky central prong of the Peloponnese at the southernmost point in Europe.
Bad communications only heightening the remoteness, this Greece—south of ancient Sparta—is one that maintains a perhaps stronger relationship with the ancient past than with the present. Myth becomes history, and vice versa...
Leigh Fermor's hallmark descriptive writing and capture of unexpected detail have made this book, first published in 1958, a classic—together with its Northern Greece counterpart, Roumeli, in a house he designed and built.
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Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor has been praised for its vivid narrative and rich observations. Reviewers highlight its blend of adventure, cultural insight, and poetic language, noting its engaging storytelling and the author's deep understanding of the area. It's described as an extraordinary travel book, full of learning and immersion in the unique landscape of southern Greece.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780719566912
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 July 2004
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Illustration: frontispiece and map
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 237g
Pages: 336
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About the Author
After his famous walk across Europe - recounted in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water - Patrick Leigh Fermor lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania and fought in Greece and Crete - living disguised as a shepherd in the mountains for two years organising resistance activities. He was awarded the DSO and CBE, and a knighthood in the 2004 new Year Honours List. His writing career, spanning over fifty years, includes six other titles available in John Murray paperback. He lives in Greece, in a house he designed and built.
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