Mani : travels in the Southern Peloponnese /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1984, ©1958.
Series:Penguin travel library
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Table of Contents:
  • South from Sparta
  • The abomination of desolation
  • Kardamyli : Byzantium restored
  • The city of Mars (Areopolis)
  • Lamentation
  • Into the deep Mani
  • Dark towers
  • A warlike aristocracy and the Maniots of Cosicas
  • Change and decay : the cocks of Matapan
  • The entrance to Hades
  • Bad mountains, evil council and cauldroneers
  • A Nereids' fountain
  • Gorgons and centaurs
  • Confabulation in Layia : Cyprus and Mrs. Gladstone
  • Ikons
  • An amphibian matriarchy and a Manoit poet
  • Up the Laconian Gulf : animals and winds
  • Short summer nights
  • Castles and the sea
  • Lacedaemonian port.