Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (Penguin Travel Library)
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140095047
- ISBN 13
- 9780140095043
- Seller
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Synopsis
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. Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity , a book of poems, Dinner with Persephone , a travel memoir about Greece, and Sugar Cane , a children’s book. She lives in New York.
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- Bookseller
- Alexander's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 075786
- Title
- Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (Penguin Travel Library)
- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140095047
- ISBN 13
- 9780140095043
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth
- Date Published
- 1983
- Pages
- 256
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Patrick Leigh Fermor; Roumeli Travels in Northern Greece
- X weight
- 300 g
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