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9781590171875

Roumeli Travels in Northern Greece

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  • ISBN13:

    9781590171875

  • ISBN10:

    159017187X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-06-06
  • Publisher: NYRB Classics
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Summary

Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greecestretching 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. Roumeli 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 inheritancethe tenuous links to the classical and Byzantine heritage, the legacy of Ottoman dominationalong with an underlying, even older world, traces of which Leigh Fermor finds in the hills and mountains and along stretches of barely explored coast. Roumeliis a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor's famousMani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese.

Author Biography

Patrick Leigh Fermor was born in 1915 of English and Irish descent. 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 now lives 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Author's Introduction 5(2)
1 The Black Departers 7(63)
2 The Monasteries of the Air 70(33)
3 The Helleno-Romaic Dilemma and Sidetrack to Crete 103(54)
4 North of the Gulf 157(29)
5 The Kingdom of Autolycus 186(51)
6 Sounds of the Greek World 237(8)
Appendix I. Derivations of Sarakatsán 245(3)
Appendix II: Glossary of Boliaric Vocabulary 248(5)
Index 253

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