Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.

FERMOR, Patrick Leigh .

Item Number: 109799

London: John Murray, 1966.

First edition of the author’s travelogue companion piece to Mani. Octavo, original cloth. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by John Craxton. A bright example.

Roumeli describes Patrick Leigh Fermor’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 Byron’s slippers at Missolonghi. As he does, he brings to light the inherent conflicts of the Greek inheritance—the tenuous links to the classical and Byzantine heritage, the legacy of Ottoman domination—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.