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Vacation Reading

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John Ganz
Jul 23, 2026
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A reader asked me to write about what I was bringing to read on my sailing trip to the Ionian Islands and I’ve decided to oblige.—

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor —

Years ago, I read Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts, his account of his walking tour as a young man from Holland to Istanbul, and fell in love with his p…

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