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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.
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Cheryl Mccleery
reviewed Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece on November 10, 2019
Roumeli
Recently, I was traveling in the Northern Philippines, and my guide suggested we stop at a small rapids and pool, where I spent some quality time with the local 20 year old knucklehead dudes, jumping into the pool, grilling some goat, taking shots of Filipino gin (smoother than expected!), and generally just enjoying the day. "Total Fermor moment," I thought. Although he would have instantly becomes best friends with them, learned to converse in the local dialect, and garnered some wisdom about the history of the region.
Because Patrick Leigh Fermor is the coolest human ever. This time, he's in the mountain regions of Northern Greece (mostly). It's a story of shepherds and witchcraft, forgotten ethnicities, lemons and roast lambs, cypress trees and sea views, wit and wisdom, ancient heroes and 19th Century freedom fighters, and singing around the campfire, swigging retsina. Yep, that's what I came here for.
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