Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Leigh Fermor, Patrick; Storace, Patricia |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 6/6/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Get lost in northern Greece with one of the greatest travel writers of the 20th century as he travels to monasteries, among shepherds, and throughout the hills, mountains, and rugged coastline of this enchanted land.
Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the nameonce given to northern Greece—stretching from the Bosporus to theAdriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes aworld where the present is inseparably bound up with the past.
Roumeli describes Patrick Leigh Fermor’s wanderings inand around this mysterious and yet very real region. He takes us withhim among Sarakatsan shepherds, to the monasteries of Meteora and thevillages of Krakora, and on a mission to track down a pair of Byron’sslippers at Missolonghi. As he does, he brings to light the inherentconflicts of the Greek inheritance—the tenuous links to the classicaland Byzantine heritage, the legacy of Ottoman domination—along with anunderlying, even older world, traces of which Leigh Fermor finds in thehills and mountains and along stretches of barely explored coast.
Roumeli is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor’s famous Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese.
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