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The Unwritten Places - Wanderings in the Mountains of Northern Greece (Paperback)
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The Unwritten Places - Wanderings in the Mountains of Northern Greece (Paperback)
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When Tim Salmon first set out to explore the remote mountain
regions of Northern Greece, he couldn't find anybody, either Greek
or foreign, who knew anything about them or had ever been there.
This, along with the absence of any books or detailed maps, proved
irresistible to the Rough Guide author, travel journalist,
mountaineer and linguist. "Those hazy bulwarks seen against a
summer sky from lowland roads and tourist routes where the
black-caped winter shepherds repaired in spring. Where did they go?
" For the next 40 years Tim made it his business to find out. A
close friendship, ongoing to this day, with a family of Vlach
mountain shepherds lies at the heart of The Unwritten Places. The
Vlachs are called Arumani in their own language, which today is
their principal distinguishing feature. It is a language derived
from Latin and is considered to be a dialect of Romanian. Tim has
watched his friends' flocks grow in size and seen the road arrive
as their children grew into their sophisticated twenties. Tim's
final acceptance by these proud and secretive peoples (but never
quite their dogs!) is marked by his participation in the annual
transhumance of the shepherds and their flocks, walking between
winter and summer pastures at a time just before the roads and the
lorries took over. A beautifully-written, intimate portrait of an
all but vanished way of Greek mountain life, uninterrupted for
thousands of years.
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