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.
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