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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#416280-XZ10
Titel	Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
Auteur	Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : John Murray Publishers
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	0719566916
ISBN13	9780719566912
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, frontispiece, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky central prong of the Peleponnese at the southernmost point in Europe. Bad communications only heightening the remoteness, this Greece - south of ancient Sparta - is one that maintains perhaps a stronger relationship with the ancient past than with the present. Myth becomes history, and vice versa. Leigh Fermor's hallmark descriptive writing and capture of unexpected detail have made this book, first published in 1958, a classic - together with its Northern Greece count... (Lees verder)erpart, Roumeli.
Pagina's	320
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 6,00

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