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The author observes: All of Greece is absorbing and rewarding. There is hardly a rock or stream without a battle or myth or miracle or a peasant anecdote or a superstition; and talk and incident, nearly all of it odd or memorable, thicken round the traveller s path at every step. In Mani , one of the two best travel books of the century , Patrick Leigh Fermor fully bears this out. His glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination is a joy to read.