{"product_id":"mani-isbn-9781590171882","title":"Mani","description":"\u003cb\u003eJoin 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMani\u003c\/i\u003e is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor’s celebrated \u003ci\u003eRoumeli: Travels in Northern Greece\u003c\/i\u003e.\"His greatest book, \u003ci\u003eMani\u003c\/i\u003e, was about a journey through  that little-known and, at the time, archaic region….[He] travelled  [sic] 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, \u003ci\u003eGeographical\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Patrick Leigh Fermor has written great travel books besides \u003ci\u003eRoumeli\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMani\u003c\/i\u003e, but I like to think that his extraordinary style is especially  well suited to the subject of Greece, that the beautiful cragginess and  almost    blinding brilliance of his prose correspond particularly to that  country’s rugged, dazzled landscapes. Here Fermor establishes an ideal  of travel writing: no one responds to a people and a place with more  erudition and sensitivity.\" — Benjamin Kunkel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A really beautiful book of travel in an almost wholly unknown part of  Europe, among people who still belong largely to the tough simple  Middle Ages; and it shows not only their charm and vigor, but the  delights which still await the explorer of Greece.\" — Gilbert Highet \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mani\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRoumeli\u003c\/i\u003e: two of the best travel books of the century.\" — \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Patrick Leigh Fermor: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"One of the greatest travel writers of all time”–\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “A unique mixture of hero, historian, traveler and writer; the last and the   greatest of a generation whose like we won't see again.”–\u003ci\u003eGeographical\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “The finest traveling companion we could ever have . . . His head is stocked   with enough cultural lore and poetic fancy to make every league an   adventure.” –\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e If all Europe were laid waste tomorrow, one might do worse than attempt to   recreate it, or at least to preserve some sense of historical splendor and   variety, by immersing oneself in the travel books of Patrick Leigh   Fermor.”—Ben Downing, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Leigh Fermor\u003c\/b\u003e (1915-2011) was an intrepid  traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style.  After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to  Constantinople that begins in \u003ci\u003eA Time of Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e (1977) and continues through \u003ci\u003eBetween the Woods and the Water\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books \u003ci\u003eMani\u003c\/i\u003e (1958) and \u003ci\u003eRoumeli\u003c\/i\u003e (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In  the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer  in Albania, and fought in Greece and Crete. He was awarded the DSO and  OBE. He lived partly in Greece—in the house he designed with his wife,  Joan, in an olive grove in the Mani—and partly in Worcestershire. He was  knighted in 2004 for his services to literature and to British–Greek  relations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Gorra\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eThe Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches English at Smith College.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304737132773,"sku":"NP9781590171882","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590171882.jpg?v=1767732220","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mani-isbn-9781590171882","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}