Product Description: Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, Nicholas Shakespeare, Peter Godwin, Victoria Hislop, and others...read more

An Englishman recounts his journey during the late 1940s from Guadeloupe and Martinique through the West Indies to Haiti and Jamaica, and describes the different societies which have grown up on the various islands

This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky central prong of the Peleponnese at the southernmost point in Europe. Bad communications only heightening the remoteness, this Greece - south of ancient Sparta - is one that maintains perhaps a stronger relationship with the ancient past than with the present. Myth becomes history, and vice versa. Leigh Fermor's hallmark descriptive writing and capture of unexpected detail have made this book, first published in 1958, a classic - together with its Northern Greece counterpart, Roumeli.

Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a pair of Byron's slippers.Roumeli is not on modern maps: it is the ancient name for the lands from the Bosphorus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth. But it is the perfect, evocative name for the Greece that Fermor captures in writing that carries throughout his trademark vividness of description. But what is more, the pictures of people, traditions and landscapes that he creates on the page are imbued with an intimate understanding of Greece and its history.

Product Description: Un viajero inglés, conoce a una enigmática y elegante dama francesa, llamada Berthe de Rennes y aficionada a la pintura, que vive retirada en una isla del Egeo. Cautivando por uno de sus cuadros, en el que aparece un bulliciosos puerto del Caribe a los pies de un volcán, poco a poco el viajero se gana la confianza de Berthe, y ésta empieza a hablarle de cierta isla antillana llamada Saint-Jacques, un exótico paraje donde, entre finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, transcurrió su juventud...read more

Product Description: In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the West Indies by steamer, aeroplane and sailing ship, noting in his records of the voyage the minute details of daily life, of the natural surroundings and of the idiosyncratic and distinct civilisations he encountered amongst the Caribbean Islands...read more

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Product Description: In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the West Indies by steamer, aeroplane and sailing ship, noting in his records of the voyage the minute details of daily life, of the natural surroundings and of the idiosyncratic and distinct civilisations he encountered amongst the Caribbean Islands...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In "Chance Acquaintances" Colette visits a health resort and she becomes an observer of the goings-on around a husband and his invalid wife. "Julie de Carneilhan" is set in pre-war Paris and tells the story of Julie and her ex-husband the Comte d'Espivant who has remarried a wealthy widow...read more

Product Description: A photographic portrait of Greece which focuses on the people, their traditional way of life, their homes, villages, day-to-day life and festivals. The book is divided into seven regional chapters with a short text on each.

Product Description: In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary...read more

Product Description: The six friends who set off to climb in the Andes in the autumn of 1971 were as varied and remarkable as the characters in a novel. The expedition was led by Robin Fedden, the writer and poet, and his wife there was a Swiss international skier and jeweller, a social anthropologist from Provence who had fought in the French Resistance and a Nottinghamshire farming squire, all seasoned mountaineers...read more

The author shares his impressions of monastic life, today and in the past, and describes his experiences visiting monasteries in France and Turkey

A renowned British travel writer's chronicle of his twelve-hundred-mile walking trip from Holland to Hungary in 1934 at the age of eighteen provides insight into a Europe hovering on the brink of the Second World War

Recounts the author's 1933 journey down the Danube to Budapest and then across the Hungarian Plain into Transylvania

Recounts the author's 1933 journey down the Danube to Budapest and then across the Hungarian Plain into Transylvania

The unorthodox romances, unrestrained passions, and unappeasable feuds of the antiquated French aristocracy and slave-descended commoners of a remote Caribbean island peak at the Mardi Gras Ball of 1902, while the island's volcano broods and flickers in the background