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You won't find Roumeli on today's maps. It is the name given long ago to northern Greece, from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Corinthian Gulf. Patrick Leigh Fermor was so captivated by the peculiarity of this name that he immortalized it in this delightful narrative.
It is a journey that takes us among the Sarakatsani shepherds, to the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Kravara, and even to the discovery of a pair of slippers worn by Byron in Messolonghi. Wherever Fermor goes, he participates in local life, with descriptions that burst to life from the page.
The ceremony of the Sarakatsani wedding, with all its fascinating rituals, and the storytelling of Uncle Ilia about the various clever methods of begging both have a place in this marvelous travelogue. It is also a journey that reveals the conflict inherent in the heritage of the Greeks: the tenuous literary connection to the glories of the ancient world, and the more recent but no less historical Byzantine legacy, as well as that left behind by Ottoman rule.
Yet beneath all this, there exists an even older world, of which Fermor finds hints in hills, mountains, and almost unknown shores.
WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THE BOOK
Maine and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the 20th century. Financial Times
A masterpiece, lightened by human warmth and understanding. Sunday Telegraph
Read an excerpt
Suddenly, however, the yawns of the evening avenue stopped with the passing of a wild, solitary, foreign figure, whom no street and no house should ever confine: a man so out of place in this dull environment, as a wolf would be in the heart of Athens. A rough black cap was worn askew on his head with tangled hair and mustache. His black crossed vest made of woven goat wool was tucked into a black belt, and underneath, a black fustanella, thickly woven and with wide pleats, opened stiffly down to the knees. Black socks, made of the same thick fabric, covered his long legs, where he wore those Greek mountain shoes that curl up at the toes and backward, like the bow of a canoe, ending in a wide tassel that covers the front part of the foot. The thick soles had nails that scraped underneath.
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- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Publisher
- Metaichmio
- Type
- Travel Literature
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Release Date
- 10/2020
- Publication Date
- 2020
- Dimensions
- 14x20.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786180323801
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