Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese Leigh Fermor, Patrick Summary This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. 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. Highlights Easy to enjoy: 331 pages · Paperback By Leigh Fermor, Patrick Details ISBN: 9780719566912 Author: Leigh Fermor, Patrick Format: Paperback Pages: 331 Language: English Publication date: 19 July 2004 Condition: New About the authors Leigh Fermor, Patrick and Patrick Leigh Fermor · Publisher: John Murray Publishers More about this book Reviews In this fascinating book, Fermor bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to unfurl "the green and gold and gentle shades" of this undisturbed landscape.
