Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (New York Review Books Classics)

• Paperback - 06 June, 2006 - NYRB Classics
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• By: Patrick Leigh Fermor and Michael Gorra
• ISBN: 1590171888

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You owe it to yourself to read Patrick Leigh Fermor

The NYRB Press has done the world a great service by re-issuing Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel books about his 1939 trek across Europe (A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water) and his stay with the Mani in Greece(The Mani). To call these "travel books" is to understate their value. Fermor is a supremely gifted writer with an encyclopedic knowledge of European history, and traveling with him through Europe on the eve of World War II is an education to equal anything you might pay a university $30,000 a year for. Fermor was a unique and original 20th century spirit -- talented, curious, intelligent, adventurous, brave and much more. He not only wrote and traveled, he inserted himself into the nexus of the war and carried out spy missions and acts of bravery that showed he was a man of action and conviction as well as a man of ideas.

Anyone who loves words and loveds to learn deserves to experience his books. Please do yourself this favor.

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