Mani

Patrick Leigh Fermor traces the myths, miracles and superstitions that infuse the landscape of the Southern Peloponnese. Mani is an extraordinary tale of adventure and encounter told through a rich and captivating narrative

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The author observes: "All of Greece is absorbing and rewarding. There is hardly a rock or stream without a battle or myth or miracle or a peasant anecdote or a superstition; and talk and incident, nearly all of it odd or memorable, thicken round the traveller's path at every step." In 'Mani', one of the "two best travel books of the century", Patrick Leigh Fermor fully bears this out. His glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination is a joy to read.