
Presents an account of the author's travels through Northern Greece as he explores the geography of thearea and discusses connections between classical and Byzantine heritage and the history of the Ottoman empire and tries to track down Lord Byron's slippers.

11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011
Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as *A Time of Gifts* (1977).
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