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Roumeli
by Leigh Fermor, Patrick
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
In this celebrated book, a companion to the author's earlier 'Mani', Leigh Fermor explores the minority communities of Northern Greece and observes the conflict between post-war Greece and the classical Greek world.
Photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell, dustwrapper by John Craxton.
Darkening and minor loss to jacket spine, otherwise a lovely copy.
Photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell, dustwrapper by John Craxton.
Darkening and minor loss to jacket spine, otherwise a lovely copy.
Synopsis
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. Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity , a book of poems, Dinner with Persephone , a travel memoir about Greece, and Sugar Cane , a children’s book. She lives in New York.
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- Bookseller
- Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2384
- Title
- Roumeli
- Author
- Leigh Fermor, Patrick
- Illustrator
- John Craxton
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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