Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Leigh Fermor, Patrick; Gorra, Michael |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 6/6/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Join a classic adventurer on his travels throughout southern Greece, where he explores remote villages, swims in the Aegean and Ionian seas, and finds history wherever he goes.
The Mani, at the tip of Greece’s—and Europe’s—southernmostpromontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut offfrom the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus andhemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past isstill very much a part of its people’s daily lives.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, who has been described as “a crossbetween Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene,” bridges thegenres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to reveal anancient world living alongside the twentieth century. Here, in the bookthat confirmed his reputation as one of the English language’s finestwriters of prose, Patrick Leigh Fermor carries the reader with him onhis journeys among the Greeks of the mountains, exploring their historyand time-honored lore.
Mani is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor’s celebrated Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.
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