Roumeli - Travels in Northern Greece (Paperback)

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."

General

Imprint:	Nyrb Classics
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2006
First published:	June 2006
Authors:	Patrick Leigh Fermor
Introduction by:	Patricia Storace
Dimensions:	203 x 126 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-59017-187-5
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel & holiday guides > General Books > Travel > Travel & holiday guides > General
LSN:	1-59017-187-X
Barcode:	9781590171875

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