This is Patrick Leigh Fermor s spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece s past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe s wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky central prong of the Peleponnese...