Patrick Leigh Fermor: Mani, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Mani
- Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
- Publisher:
- Hodder And Stoughton Ltd., 07/2004
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780719566912
- Item number:
- 2700274
- Volume:
- 320 Pages
- other:
- frontispiece and map
- Age recommendation:
- Hobby/Freizeit
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2004
- Weight:
- 237 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 19.7.2004
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Mani |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback | EUR 14.99* |
Short description
A glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination: mountainous Greece by the master traveller and writer who brought you A TIME OF GIFTS.
Blurb
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.
Biography
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1915 geboren, unternahm 1933 als achtzehnjähriger eine legendäre Reise zu Fuß von Rotterdam nach Constantinopel. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg kämpfte er als Verbindungsoffizier in Griechenland und auf Kreta gegen die deutsche Besatzung. Er reiste in die Karibik, wo sein erster und einziger Roman entstand. In der englischsprachigen Welt als Reiseschriftsteller hochgeachtet, lebt er heute in Griechenland, in einem Haus, das er selbst entworfen und gebaut hat.
