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In Roumeli, the companion volume to Mani, Patrick Leigh Fermor explores Northern Greece. He travels 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. The vivid descriptions of the people, traditions and landscape are imbued with an intimate understanding of Greece and Greek history.
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[Mani and Roumeli are] two of the 20th Century's most celebrated travel books (Independent on Sunday)
He is in the first flight of writers on Greece. (The Times)
A masterpiece softened by warm, human understanding. (Sunday Telegraph)
[U]nlike the celebrated travellers of the past he has become part of the country he describes. (Sunday Times)
'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)
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He is in the first flight of writers on Greece. (The Times)
A masterpiece softened by warm, human understanding. (Sunday Telegraph)
[U]nlike the celebrated travellers of the past he has become part of the country he describes. (Sunday Times)
'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)
Patrick Leigh Fermor travels 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.
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0719562155
- ISBN 13 9780719562150
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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