{"product_id":"9781590175200","title":"Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece","description":"Roumeli  is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name  once given to  northern Greece—stretching from the Bosporus to the  Adriatic and from  Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a  world where the  present is inseparably bound up with the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoumeli\u003c\/i\u003e describes Patrick Leigh Fermor’s wanderings in  and around this  mysterious and yet very real region. He takes us with  him among  Sarakatsan shepherds, to the monasteries of Meteora and the  villages of  Krakora, and on a mission to track down a pair of Byron’s  slippers at  Missolonghi. As he does, he brings to light the inherent  conflicts of  the Greek inheritance—the tenuous links to the classical  and Byzantine  heritage, the legacy of Ottoman domination—along with an  underlying,  even older world, traces of which Leigh Fermor finds in the  hills and  mountains and along stretches of barely explored coast.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoumeli\u003c\/i\u003e is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor’s famous\u003ci\u003e Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137944010992,"sku":"9781590175200","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590175200_p0.jpg?v=1763809976","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590175200","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}