--- product_id: 4106344 title: "Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese" brand: "patrick leigh fermor" price: "VT8918" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/4106344-mani-travels-in-the-southern-peloponnese store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese **Brand:** patrick leigh fermor **Price:** VT8918 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by patrick leigh fermor - **How much does it cost?** VT8918 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/4106344-mani-travels-in-the-southern-peloponnese) ## Best For - patrick leigh fermor enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted patrick leigh fermor brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (New York Review Books Classics) ## Images ![Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/815I9lmdmGL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bring a dictionary. *by B***Y on Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2019* Bring a dictionary. This is a marvelously polysyllabic series of essays loosely bound together as a travelogue of Fermor’s sojourn in the Mani, a region of Greece that even Fermor describes as barren, hot and desolate. The sentences are often elaborately complex; the paragraphs discursive. One digression leads to another before circling back to the Mani. If you loved Fermor,s baroque vocabulary and incredible historical knowledge displayed in A Time of Gifts, you should love this. If you have never before read Fermor prepare yourself for beautiful prose, complicated genealogies and an extensive but erratic history of the Greek world. I recommend it with reservations. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Immanent Frontier *by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2011* Do you love poetry, or, to be more precise, wildly poetic prose? Do you have a deep-seated love of etymology, so much so that a phrase spoken at random will send you off into a wild linguistic reverie on the history of tongues? Above all, do you have a powerful, almost overwhelming sense of place that puts you in touch with a vast sprawling history before your inner eye? If so, you will absolutely fall in love with this book, as I did. For it is, as Fermor puts it in his Preface, "the opposite of a guide book." And thank whatever gods may be that this is so!Let me give two illustrative examples to whet the prospective reader's appetite:Towards the beginning, Fermor and his future wife Joan encounter a fisherman mending his nets in the early morning and begin consuming a bottle of ouzo. "There is a special delight in this early-morning drinking in Greece." And for the next seven pages one is transported into a fantasia of the past ignited by the conversation with the fisherman and, of course, his ouzo:"...the whole of Constantinople seemed to be rising on a dazzling golden cloud and the central dome began to revolve as the redoubled clangour of the Byzantines hoisted it aloft. Loud with bells and gongs, with cannon flashing from the walls and a cloud-borne fleet firing long crimson radii of Greek fire, the entire visionary city, turning in faster and faster spirals, sailed to a blinding and unconjecturable zenith... The bottle was empty...We stepped out into the sobering glare of noon."Finally, and pre-eminently, let me quote Fermor towards the end as to why he is enraptured by these Greek hinterlands, their people and their language. It is a sense I've had quite often regarding places I've visited, and anyone who has had a similar experience will recognise it instantly:"Animate and inanimate objects, on ikon and church wall and mountain-side, have the same spiritual effect, the same mystical and animistic aura of immanence. No wonder the Greeks of all centuries have populated these hills with a magical fauna and a dramatis personae and a pantheon...These characteristics have a strange effect on the Greek landscape. Nature becomes supernatural; the frontier between physical and metaphysical is confounded."So, Go! Read! Confound your frontiers! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A lot more than travel memoires *by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2014* One of the best travel books I have ever read. I had traveled to that part of the world and the book vividly transported me back there. Fermor's writing is hard to classify, but it certainly is not "travel writing" only. In his books one finds geography, painting, anthropology, linguistics, history and psychology. There are paragraphs that poets would be lucky to write. There are words that you may need to check with the dictionary, but they never strike you as a show off way to impress. The details are amazingly jumping from the page, but they never bore me. Since I was born and raised in Greece, I have always attempted to separate the strength of his writing from my one "Greek" reaction. Reading his travel books fron countries other than Greece has cured me of that skepticism. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/4106344-mani-travels-in-the-southern-peloponnese](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/4106344-mani-travels-in-the-southern-peloponnese) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*