Secret-seeming combe
'Secret-seeming' promises quiet landings of a boat shingling onto a beach, or morning departures. 'Combe' is curious in the context...
Troy-bound villagers
In this triologism, Leigh Fermor effortlessly conveys the millennia-spanning history of an obscure village, implying that its inhabitants might be...
A table laid by ravens
Leigh Fermor describes the unexpected hospitality and kindness encountered in the Mani after having been warned that his throat would...
Dust-clogged hair
As Leigh Fermor prepares to set off through Mani in the Peloponnese, he is given several such 'there be dragons'...
Dungeon-like gloom
This gloom was no doubt accentuated by the blinding brilliance outside, and may even have been a soothing balm to...
Thorn-studded bats
No, this isn't a description of a gothic night-flight of vampiric birds, he is referring rather to the big, flat...
Pepper-pot turrets
The description of these towers and turrets in the village of Kardamyli, which are a match for the mine's-bigger-than-yours competition...
Champagne-bottle shoulders
What a charming if old-fashioned sounding description of sloping beauty, in this case referring to voluptuous Europa. Â And 'callipygous' describes...
Light-skinned Yemenite
This describes Leigh Fermor's first incursion into the Mani, after having been warned by the rest of Greece that going...
Ankle-snapping boulders
Another vivid image of this lunar landscape, boulders both too big and too small to step on, instead being the...
Sun-refracting facet
Mani is a stark and unforgiving landscape, conveyed with sharp-edged precision by Leigh Fermor.
'But there were no bridges or...
Skull-like blankness
A blindingly white description of a sun-parched landscape. Elsewhere Leigh Fermor conjures another type of blankness, that of a face,...
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