Mani

Patrick L Fermor

ISBN 10: 0719566916 / ISBN 13: 9780719566912

Published by Hodder Hb, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mani
• Publisher: Hodder Hb
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719566916
• ISBN 13: 9780719566912
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1787008232.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 42609206
• Signed: 8/17/2026 11:10:32 PM
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About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

After his famous walk across Europe - recounted inA Time of GiftsandBetween the Woods and the Water- Patrick Leigh Fermor 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.