FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Mani: Travels In The Southern Peloponnese.
London: John Murray, 1958.
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First Edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
First edition of the author's travelogue about the rocky Mani, later complementing it with Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece and title-page vignette by John Craxton, map of the southern Peloponnese by John Woodcock, and illustrated with 26 photographs. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket design by John Craxton. Photographs by author's wife Joan Eyres Monsell. A very sharp example.
"His greatest book, Mani, was about a journey through that little-known and, at the time, archaic region. [He] traveled simply, staying with fishermen and farmers, which enabled him to capture the essence of the region.Almost every page has its own literary tour de force, often with intimidating displays of learning and research mixed with fantasy, imagination and acute descriptions of the scene itself" (Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Geographical). "Mani and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the century" (Financial Times).
Mani: Travels In The Southern Peloponnese.
$750.00
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