Description
Title: Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
Author: FERMOR PATRICK LEIGH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 19/07/2004
Imprint: JOHN MURRAY (OZ)
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
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 – 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.
ISBN: 9780719566912
Weight: 240g
Dimension: 197mm X 130mm
Pages: 336