Mani(Updated) Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (Travel Library) by Patrick Leigh Fermor, JohnWoodcock Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1984 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-009503-6, ISBN: 0-14-009503-9
"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 imag ..."
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"This is about the remotest, the wildest and the most isolated region of Greece. Cut off from the rest of country by the towering range of the Taygetus, and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, this rocky central prong of the Peloponnese is the southern most point of Mediterranean Europe."