Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The author observes: All of Greece is absorbing and rewarding. There is hardly a rock or stream without a battle or myth or miracle or a peasant anecdote or a superstition; and talk and incident, nearly all of it odd or memorable, thicken round the traveller's path at every step. In 'Mani', one of the two best travel books of the century, Patrick Leigh Fermor fully bears this out. His glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination is a joy to read.
[Mani and Roumeli are] two of the 20th Centuries most celebrated travel books -- Independent on Sunday 20030622 From the Mani he has brought back richesHow can one do justice to the fascination and poetry of this book, its generosity and its learning -- its love? -- The Spectator 20030622 Mani and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the century -- Financial Times 20030622 Quite outside the range of normal accounts of travel ... He supercharges his narrative with a combination of tenderness and high spirits appropriate to his past achievements as a guerrilla leader in Crete. -- Daily Telegraph 20030622 a man recognised as one of the greatest travel writers of his generation!considered by many to be the finest travel books ever written -- Manchester Evening News 20030622 with a heady mix of scholarship, history and imagination and a magical turn of phrase from Paddy Fermor -- Manchester Evening News 20030603 A natural hero -- Manchester Evening News 20030603 Not to be missed, Yammas! -- Manchester Evening News 20030603 Mani is an extraordinary book of adventure and encounter, fantasy and learning, observation and experience ... it is a wonderfully rich book, richer for the warmth of the Philhellenism which Leigh Fermor betrays throughout. -- Sunday Times 20030603 He supercharges his narrative with a combination of tenderness and high spirits appropriate to his past achievements as a guerrilla leader in Crete. -- Daily Telegraph 20030603
Patrick Leigh Fermor now lives in Greece with his wife in a house he designed and built.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719562143 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719562147 |
| Title | Mani |
| Author | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| Series | John Murray Travel Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Year published | 2003-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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