Patrick Leigh Fermor: Mani | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780719566912 | Mani | Travels in the Southern Peloponnese | Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

In December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople in early 1935. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzene, with whom he lived - mostly in Rumania - until the outbreak of war. Serving in occupied Crete, he led a successful operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO and was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. After the war he began writing, and travelled extensively round Greece with Joan Eyres Monsell whom he later married. Towards the end of his life he wrote the first two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, unfinished at the time of his death in 2011, which has since been edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2004
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Reiseberichte
Region:	Europa
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780719566912
ISBN-10:	0719566916
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Hersteller:	Hodder And Stoughton Ltd. John Murray Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	frontispiece and map
Maße:	198 x 129 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick Leigh Fermor
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.07.2004
Gewicht:	0,237 kg