Fermor's legendary book on Greece in a new translation: a reading seduction of the finest kind. No other country is as closely connected to the great traveler and writer Patrick Leigh Fermor as Greece. In particular, the rocky peninsula of Mani in the southern Peloponnese, where he lived for decades until his death in 2011. His knowledgeable and wonderfully immediate depiction of this rugged and isolated region, shaped by the Taygetos Mountains, was first published in 1958. On his hikes, the author discovers an archaic Greece, an untouched landscape where one can still find traces of myth, antiquity, and the remnants of Western history everywhere.