Mani~Travels in the Southern Peloponnese~Patrick Leigh Fermor~1967~First Edition~Fourth Printing~Fine Condition~Rare~Free Shipping

Mani~Travels in the Southern Peloponnese~Patrick Leigh Fermor~1967~First Edition~Fourth Printing~Fine Condition~Rare~Free Shipping.

This rare book is in fine condition. The unique dust jacket has some minor shelf wear and a couple of small tears. One inscription on inside front cover. Tight red cloth binding. Many photos and illustrations. Photos were taken by Mr. Fermor’s wife. Pages are clean and the book seems unread. Published by John Murray of London. Considered to be the companion volume to his other book Roumeli. A unique vintage find. Thanks for visiting our shop!

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011), also known as Paddy Fermor, was a British author, scholar, soldier and polyglot who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War. He was widely regarded as Britain’s greatest living travel writer during his lifetime, based on books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once described him as “a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene.” The Patrick Leigh Fermor Society was formed in 2014.

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese is a travel book by English author Patrick Leigh Fermor, published in 1958. It covers his journey with wife Joan and friend Xan Fielding around the Mani peninsula in southern Greece.

The book chronicles Leigh Fermor’s travels around the Mani peninsula in southern mainland Greece. The region is typically viewed as inhospitable and isolated from much of the remainder of Greece due its harsh geography. The Taygetus mountains run down the middle of the peninsula, limiting most settlements to small villages on or near the coast. They begin near Kalamata, and then proceed south along the Mani coastline (mostly by boat or caique), ending the book in the town of Gytheon.

Mani is sometimes listed as a companion volume to Leigh Fermor’s book Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.

Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor later settled in the Mani peninsula, living in a house near Kardamyli that the two designed and built. - From Wikipedia

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