Mani
(Author) Patrick Leigh FermorThis 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 - is one that maintains perhaps a 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.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor was a British writer and adventurer known for his travel memoirs, most notably "A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the Water." His lyrical prose and vivid descriptions brought to life his journeys through Europe, earning him acclaim as one of the greatest travel writers of his generation.
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