Irad Malkin: Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean
Author: Irad Malkin
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ISBN: 9780521520249
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Using Fermor’s books as his only travel guide he spent seven months walking his route through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey, to discover for himself what remained of hospitality, kindness to strangers, freedom, wildness, Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean download PDF adventure, the mysterious, the unknown, the deeper currents of myth and story that still flow beneath Europe’s surface. I'd been walking for two hundred and twenty days. With the twists and turns the road had taken it was impossible to say how far; two and a half thousand miles was my rough guess. I'd passed through eight countries and three seasons, followed two major rivers and dozens of minor ones, and crossed three mountain ranges, one of them twice. I'd picked up fragments of seven languages, and met more people than I could remember. I'd walked through three books: two real, one imagined. I'd worn one pair of boots.