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Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name given in olden times to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosphorus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth. In the same way that thace lands of Greece's southern peninsula captivated his readers in Mani, Patrick Leigh Fermor was so seduced by the strangeness of this name that he immortalized it in the classic account of his travels there.
It is a journey that takes us with him amongst Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Karkora, even tracking down a pair of Byron's slippers at Missolonghi. And it is one that uncovers the inherent conflict of the Greeks' inheritance; a tenuous scholastic link with the glories of the ancient world, and the more recent but no less historic Byzantine heritage and legacy of Ottoman domination. But underlying all is an even older world, evidence of which he finds in the hills and mountains and along stretches of barely-explored coast.
Synopsis:
Roumeli 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.
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 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.
Roumeli is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese.
Synopsis:
A companion book to Fermor's "Mani, Roumeli" takes readers on a journey that uncovers the inherent conflict of the Greeks' inheritance: a tenuous scholastic link with the glories of the ancient world and the more recent but no less historic Byzantine heritage and legacy of Ottoman domination.
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