Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once
given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the
Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that
evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the
past.
"Roumeli" describes Patrick Leigh Fermor's wanderings in and around
this mysterious and yet very real region. He takes us with him
among Sarakatsan shepherds, to the monasteries of Meteora and the
villages of Krakora, and on a mission to track down a pair of
Byron's slippers at Missolonghi. As he does, he brings to light the
inherent conflicts of the Greek inheritance--the tenuous links to
the classical and Byzantine heritage, the legacy of Ottoman
domination--along with an underlying, even older world, traces of
which Leigh Fermor finds in the hills and mountains and along
stretches of barely explored coast.
"Roumeli" is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous"
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese."
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