Mani
Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
$29.60
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
18 July 2004
Summary
This is Patrick Leigh Fermor’s spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a 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 Peleponnese at the southernmost point in Europe.
Bad communications only heightening the remoteness, this Greece - south of ancient Sparta - …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719566912 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719566916 |
| Author: | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 18 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 237g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
An extraordinary book of adventure and encounter, fantasy and learning, observation and experience - Sunday Times
From the Mani he has brought back riches. How can one do justice to the fascination and poetry of this book, its generosity and its learning - its love? - SpectatorHe supercharges his narrative with a combination of tenderness and high spirits appropriate to his past achievements as a guerrilla leader in Crete - Daily TelegraphMani and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the century - Financial TimesJohn Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor’s main books … But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world? - Geographical MagazineBringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples … to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better - Geographical MagazineExtraordinarily engaging … thanks to Leigh Fermor’s ability to turn an insight into a telling phrase … a compelling story - London Review of BooksAbout The Author
Patrick Leigh Fermor
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. He lives in Greece, in a house he designed and built.
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