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23%OFFPatrick Leigh Fermor - Roumeli - 9780719566929 - V9780719566929
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Roumeli

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Description for Roumeli Paperback. Now in John Murray B-format, the famous exploration of Northern Greece by the great twentieth century travel writer known to generations for A Time of Gifts. Num Pages: 256 pages, frontispiece and map. BIC Classification: 1DVG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.

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 the perfect, evocative name for the Greece that Fermor captures in writing that carries throughout his trademark vividness of description. But what is more, the pictures of people, traditions and landscapes that he creates on the page are imbued with an intimate understanding of Greece and its history.

Product Details

Publisher
Hodder Hb
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
183g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719566929
SKU
V9780719566929
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Patrick Leigh Fermor
After his famous walk across Europe - recounted in A Time of Gifts and Between 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.

Reviews for Roumeli
Mani and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the century
Financial Times
A masterpiece softened by warm, human understanding
Sunday Times
Marvellous... 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
Observer
A wandering scholar but with a difference: unlike the celebrated travellers of the past he has become part of the country he describes
Sunday Times
He is in the first flight of writers on Greece
The Times
John 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 Magazine
Bringing 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 Magazine
'Extraordinarily engaging . . . thanks to Leigh Fermor's ability to turn an insight into a telling phrase . . . a compelling story'
London Review of Books
Leigh Fermor is a writer's writer, a man whose prose is frequently and justifiably likened to poetry. He writes like an angel in other words
and angels don't date
Justin Marozzi, Financial Times
'A Book For... The Greek islands'
Justin Marozzi, Financial Times

Goodreads reviews for Roumeli


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