Patrick Leigh Fermor

Broschiertes Buch

Mani

Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

Beschreibung

Located at the heart of Europe's southernmost promontory, the Mani is one of the wildest, most isolated regions in Greece. In this fascinating book, Fermor bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to unfurl "the green and gold and gentle shades" of this undisturbed landscape.

Autor

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style. After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania, and fought in Greece and Crete. He was awarded the DSO and OBE. He lived partly in Greece--in the house he designed with his wife, Joan, in an olive grove in the Mani--and partly in Worcestershire. He was knighted in 2004 for his services to literature and to British-Greek relations. Michael Gorra is the author of, among other books, The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany and Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches English at Smith College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York Review of Books
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 128mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781590171882
• ISBN-10: 1590171888
• Artikelnr.: 21492318

Rezensionen

An extraordinary book of adventure and encounter, fantasy and learning, observation and experience Sunday Times