Publisher's Synopsis
The author observes: 'All of Greece is absorbing and rewarding. There is hardly a rock or stream without a battle or myth or miracle or a peasant anecdote or a superstition; and talk and incident, nearly all of it odd or memorable, thicken round the traveller's path at every step.'
In Mani , one of the 'two best travel books of the century', Patrick Leigh Fermor fully bears this out. His glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination is a joy to read.