Roumeli
Travels in Northern Greece
$24.30
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2004
Summary
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a pair of Byron’s slippers.
Roumeli is not on modern maps: it is the ancient name for the lands from the Bosphorus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth. But it is…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719566929 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719566924 |
| Author: | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
‘A Book For… The Greek islands’
Mani and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the century - Financial Times
A masterpiece softened by warm, human understanding - Sunday TimesMarvellous… we are fortunate to have these unforgettable reports from the fields and the marshes, the peaks and the chasms, the taverns and the waterfronts of the Roumeli - ObserverA wandering scholar but with a difference: unlike the celebrated travellers of the past he has become part of the country he describes - Sunday TimesHe is in the first flight of writers on Greece - The 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
Patrick Leigh Fermor, after his famous walk across Europe - recounted in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water - 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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