Roumeli

Mani and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the century * Financial Times *
A masterpiece softened by warm, human understanding * Sunday Times *
Marvellous... we are fortunate to have these unforgettable reports from the fields and the marshes, the peaks and the chasms, the taverns and the waterfronts of the Roumeli * Observer *
A wandering scholar but with a difference: unlike the celebrated travellers of the past he has become part of the country he describes * Sunday Times *
He is in the first flight of writers on Greece * The Times *
John Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor's main books ... But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world? * Geographical Magazine *
Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples ... to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better * Geographical Magazine *
'Extraordinarily engaging . . . thanks to Leigh Fermor's ability to turn an insight into a telling phrase . . . a compelling story' * London Review of Books *
Leigh Fermor is a writer's writer, a man whose prose is frequently and justifiably likened to poetry. He writes like an angel in other words -- and angels don't date * Justin Marozzi, Financial Times *
'A Book For... The Greek islands' * Justin Marozzi, Financial Times *