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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.
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[Mani and Roumeli are] two of the 20th Centuries most celebrated travel books (Independent on Sunday)
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? (The Spectator)
Mani and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the century (Financial Times)
Quite outside the range of normal accounts of travel ... He supercharges his narrative with a combination of tenderness and high spirits appropriate to his past achievements as a guerrilla leader in Crete. (Daily Telegraph)
a man recognised as one of the greatest travel writers of his generation...considered by many to be the finest travel books ever written (Manchester Evening News)
with a heady mix of scholarship, history and imagination and a magical turn of phrase from Paddy Fermor (Manchester Evening News)
A natural hero (Manchester Evening News)
Not to be missed, Yammas! (Manchester Evening News)
Mani is an extraordinary book of adventure and encounter, fantasy and learning, observation and experience ... it is a wonderfully rich book, richer for the warmth of the Philhellenism which Leigh Fermor betrays throughout. (Sunday Times)
He supercharges his narrative with a combination of tenderness and high spirits appropriate to his past achievements as a guerrilla leader in Crete. (Daily Telegraph)
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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? (The Spectator)
Mani and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the century (Financial Times)
Quite outside the range of normal accounts of travel ... He supercharges his narrative with a combination of tenderness and high spirits appropriate to his past achievements as a guerrilla leader in Crete. (Daily Telegraph)
a man recognised as one of the greatest travel writers of his generation...considered by many to be the finest travel books ever written (Manchester Evening News)
with a heady mix of scholarship, history and imagination and a magical turn of phrase from Paddy Fermor (Manchester Evening News)
A natural hero (Manchester Evening News)
Not to be missed, Yammas! (Manchester Evening News)
Mani is an extraordinary book of adventure and encounter, fantasy and learning, observation and experience ... it is a wonderfully rich book, richer for the warmth of the Philhellenism which Leigh Fermor betrays throughout. (Sunday Times)
He supercharges his narrative with a combination of tenderness and high spirits appropriate to his past achievements as a guerrilla leader in Crete. (Daily Telegraph)
A glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination: mountainous Greece by the master traveller and writer who brought you A Time of Gifts.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0140095039
- ISBN 13 9780140095036
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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