Vanishing Greece

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

An intimate portrait of a country in transition

189 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1992

About the author

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, OBE, DSO was of English and Irish descent. After his stormy schooldays, followed by his walk across Europe to Constantinople, he lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago acquiring a deep interest in languages and remote places.

Fermor was an army officer who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Battle of Crete during World War II. He lived partly in Greece in a house he designed with his wife Joan in an olive grove in the Mani, and partly in Worcestershire. He was widely regarded as "Britain's greatest living travel writer".

Reviews

[Mohammed Galal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ahhhhhh,it is Greece that we are talking about,an incredibly stunning country..I like the other less trodden and less known Greece in this book.It s the Greece of the peasants whose hands speak volumes of the arduous work they do.Their faces are impassive,their smiles lifeless.Nonetheless,they are still admirable."The land of lost gods and god-like men,"the Greece of Byron,occupies no place in this book..Both Greeces are equally intoxicating..