{"product_id":"roumeli-travels-in-northern-greece-9781590171875","title":"Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece","description":"\u003cb\u003eGet lost in northern Greece with one of the greatest travel writers of the 20th century as he travels to monasteries, among shepherds, and throughout the hills, mountains, and rugged coastline of this enchanted land. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoumeli\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoumeli\u003c\/i\u003e is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous\u003ci\u003e Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3606942\"\u003ePatrick Leigh Fermor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.04w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590171875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 159017187X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-TRV\"\u003eTravel\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-TRV009080\"\u003eEurope | Greece\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Storace\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeredity\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of poems, \u003ci\u003eDinner with Persephone\u003c\/i\u003e, a travel memoir about Greece, \u003ci\u003eSugar Cane\u003c\/i\u003e, a children's book, and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel. She lives in New York.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42687463162093,"sku":"9781590171875","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_843accf3-2353-4647-be0e-c858f7dc1025.jpg?v=1649781883","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/roumeli-travels-in-northern-greece-9781590171875","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}