num_pages: 320
description: 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.A glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination: mountainous Greece by the master traveller and writer who brought you A TIME OF GIFTS.
language: English
title: Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
titlecomplete: Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
genres: Cultural, Biography, Greece, British Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Travel, 20th Century, History
ratings_count: 1136
places: Peleponnese
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: Duff Cooper Prize
publisher: John Murray