Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (New York Review Books

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (New York Review Books Classics)

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.Â

Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greeceâ€”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 Fermorâ€™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 Byronâ€™s slippers at Missolonghi. As he does, he brings to light the inherent conflicts of the Greek inheritanceâ€”the tenuous links to the classical and Byzantine heritage, the legacy of Ottoman dominationâ€”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 Fermorâ€™s famous Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese.
Country USA
Brand NYRB Classics
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781590171875
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2006-06-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590171875

Country	USA
Brand	NYRB Classics
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781590171875
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2006-06-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590171875

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (New York Review Books Classics)

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