"[Mani and Roumeli are] two of the 20th Centuries most celebrated travel books" -- Independent on Sunday 20030622 From the Mani he has brought back riches. How can one do justice to the fascination and poetry of this book, its generosity and its learning -- its love? -- The Spectator 20030622 Mani and Roumeli: two of the best travel books of the century -- Financial Times 20030622 Quite outside the range of normal accounts of travel ... He supercharges his narrative with a combination of tenderness and high spirits appropriate to his past achievements as a guerrilla leader in Crete. -- Daily Telegraph 20030622 "a man recognised as one of the greatest travel writers of his generation!considered by many to be the finest travel books ever written" -- Manchester Evening News 20030622 "with a heady mix of scholarship, history and imagination and a magical turn of phrase from Paddy Fermor" -- Manchester Evening News 20030603 " A natural hero" -- Manchester Evening News 20030603 " Not to be missed, Yammas!" -- Manchester Evening News 20030603 Mani is an extraordinary book of adventure and encounter, fantasy and learning, observation and experience ... it is a wonderfully rich book, richer for the warmth of the Philhellenism which Leigh Fermor betrays throughout. -- Sunday Times 20030603 "He supercharges his narrative with a combination of tenderness and high spirits appropriate to his past achievements as a guerrilla leader in Crete." -- Daily Telegraph 20030603

Patrick Leigh Fermor now lives in Greece with his wife in a house he designed and built.