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24%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 ... Read more

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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
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Roumeli


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