Mani - Patrick Leigh Fermor

Join a classic adventurer on his travels throughout southern Greece, where he explores remote villages, swims in the Aegean and Ionian seas, and finds history wherever he goes.

The Mani, at the tip of Greece's-and Europe's-southernmost
promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off
from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and
hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is
still very much a part of its people's daily lives.


Patrick Leigh Fermor, who has been described as "a cross
between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene," bridges the
genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to reveal an
ancient world living alongside the twentieth century. Here, in the book
that confirmed his reputation as one of the English language's finest
writers of prose, Patrick Leigh Fermor carries the reader with him on
his journeys among the Greeks of the mountains, exploring their history
and time-honored lore.

Mani is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor's celebrated Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.