Mani - Travels in the Southern Peloponnese.
de FERMOR, Patrick Leigh
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John Murray, London., 1958. First edition. Octavo. pp xviii, 320. Travels through Southern Greece by the author, his wife and friend, and fellow travel writer, Xan Fielding. Frontispiece and dustwrapper designed by John Craxton and all photographs by Fermor's wife, Joan Eyres Monsell. Contemporary (1958) gift inscription on front free endpaper. Tail of spine and one corner slightly bumped. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper a bit spotted on the rear panel and rubbed and creased at the edges.
Sinopsis
Patrick Leigh Fermor (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 A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (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. Michael Gorra teaches English Literature at Smith College. He is the author of After Empire: Scott , Naipaul , Rushdie . His most recent book is Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece . He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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- Título
- Mani - Travels in the Southern Peloponnese.
- Autor
- FERMOR, Patrick Leigh
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- John Murray, London.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1958
- Palabras clave
- greece
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