Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor (English) Paperback

Description: Roumeli by Patrick Leigh Fermor, Patricia Storace A companion book to Fermors "Mani, Roumeli" takes readers on a journey that uncovers the inherent conflict of the Greeks inheritance: a tenuous scholastic link with the glories of the ancient world and the more recent but no less historic Byzantine heritage and legacy of Ottoman domination. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 name once given to northern Greece—stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past. Roumeli describes Patrick Leigh Fermors wanderings in and around this mysterious and yet very real region. He takes us with him among Sarakatsan shepherds, to the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, and on a mission to track down a pair of Byrons slippers at Missolonghi. As he does, he brings to light the inherent conflicts of the Greek inheritance—the tenuous links to the classical and Byzantine heritage, the legacy of Ottoman domination—along with an underlying, even older world, traces of which Leigh Fermor finds in the hills and mountains and along stretches of barely explored coast.Roumeli is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermors famous Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese. Author Biography 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 ofcer 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. Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece, Sugar Cane, a childrens book, and The Book of Heaven, a novel. She lives in New York. Review "…Mani and Roumeli remain extraordinarily engaging books. This is partly thanks to Leigh Fermors ability to turn an insight into a telling phrase…and partly thanks to his capacity to weave a compelling story out of sometimes unpromising material. One of the best tales of all is the hilarious digression in Roumeli on the attempted recovery of a pair of Byrons slippers from a man in Missolonghi, on behalf of Byrons very odd great-granddaughter Lady Wentworth…When you see through all the nonsense about Hellenic continuity, there is, underneath, a much more nuanced account of the ambivalences of modern Greece, its people and its myths (its own myths about itself and us, as much as our myths about it)." — Mary Beard, The London Review of Books "Recommended to those who admire exotic people, unbookish intelligence and captivating style." — Gilbert Highet "Here it all is once again: brilliance, the felicitous profusion, the exuberance of learning and information. . . .Roumeli is not a beginning and middle and end book, but a series of pictures loosely related, mainly placed in Roumeli, in the north of Greece. Its unity, however, is not geographic so much as psychological. It deals with secluded ways and people—communities but not minglers—people who either by the necessities of their crafts or the strength of their traditions have kept to their own stream, side by side but not deeply affected by the changes around them….Placed as we are at probably the most sudden turn in history, any writing that deals with what has so short a time of survival ahead adds, as it were, a museum interest to its own intrinsic qualities. These pictures of Greece are things that a coming generation will look for in vain among the realities of their day." — Freya Stark, The New York Times"Patrick Leigh Fermor has written great travel books besides Roumeli and Mani, but I like to think that his extraordinary style is especially well suited to the subject of Greece, that the beautiful cragginess and almost blinding brilliance of his prose correspond particularly to that countrys rugged, dazzled landscapes. Here Fermor establishes an ideal of travel writing: no one responds to a people and a place with more erudition and sensitivity." —Benjamin Kunkel"[Leigh Fermor] becomes fascinated by the last true nomads of the region, the Sarakatsáns. His description of their wanderings is, for me, the best sort of literary geography lesson, and has even more geopolitical relevance now than when he wrote it." - Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Geographical Praise for Patrick Leigh Fermor: "One of the greatest travel writers of all time"–The Sunday Times "A unique mixture of hero, historian, traveler and writer; the last and the greatest of a generation whose like we wont see again."–Geographical "The finest traveling companion we could ever have . . . His head is stocked with enough cultural lore and poetic fancy to make every league an adventure." –Evening StandardIf all Europe were laid waste tomorrow, one might do worse than attempt to recreate it, or at least to preserve some sense of historical splendor and variety, by immersing oneself in the travel books of Patrick Leigh Fermor."—Ben Downing, The Paris Review Long Description Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece-- stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past. Roumeli describes Patrick Leigh Fermor s wanderings in and around this mysterious and yet very real region. He takes us with him among Sarakatsan shepherds, to the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, and on a mission to track down a pair of Byron s slippers at Missolonghi. As he does, he brings to light the inherent conflicts of the Greek inheritance-- the tenuous links to the classical and Byzantine heritage, the legacy of Ottoman domination-- along with an underlying, even older world, traces of which Leigh Fermor finds in the hills 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." Review Quote "There is only one complaint I can think of making about Patrick Leigh Fermors books: They appear too seldom. When they do appear, they offer that kindest of pleasures open to a reviewerthe chance of unqualified praise." The New York Times "ManiandRoumeli: two of the best travel books of the century."Financial Times "…ManiandRoumeliremain extraordinarily engaging books. This is partly thanks to Leigh Fermors ability to turn an insight into a telling phrase …and partly thanks to his capacity to weave a compelling story out of sometimes unpromising material. One of the best tales of all is the hilarious digression inRoumelion the attempted recovery of a pair of Byrons slippers from a man in Missolonghi, on behalf of Byrons very odd great-granddaughter Lady Wentworth…When you see through all the nonsense about Hellenic continuity, there is, underneath, a much more nuanced account of the ambivalences of modern Greece, its people and its myths (its own myths about itself and us, as much as our myths about it)."Mary Beard,The London Review of Books Praise for Patrick Leigh Fermor: "[O]ne of the greatest travel writers of all time"The Sunday Times "[A] unique mixture of hero, historian, traveler and writer; the last and the greatest of a generation whose like we wont see again."Geographical "The finest traveling companion we could ever have . . . His head is stocked with enough cultural lore and poetic fancy to make every league an adventure." Evening Standard Details ISBN159017187X Author Patricia Storace Series New York Review Books Classics Language English ISBN-10 159017187X ISBN-13 9781590171875 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2006 Short Title ROUMELI Residence US Imprint NYRB Classics Subtitle Travels in Northern Greece DOI 10.1604/9781590171875 AU Release Date 2006-06-06 NZ Release Date 2006-06-06 UK Release Date 2006-06-06 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2006-06-06 Pages 280 Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc Publication Date 2006-06-06 DEWEY 914.9570474 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:11404594;

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