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A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this...
A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author ofA Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own...
The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the...
From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings....
In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a...
This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and...
Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even...
In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the...
The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where...
INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.' In 1933, aged eighteen,...
On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano, and, in time, she shares the story of her youth there in the early twentieth century. ...
Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he...
Une des plus audacieuses opérations commando de la Seconde Guerre mondialePeut-on être à la fois un héros des Services spéciaux de Sa Majesté et l’un des plus grands écrivains du XXe siècle ? Patrick Leigh Fermor nous le prouve ici.Dans ce récit inédit, il nous conte...
ÀUn voyage spirituel et littéraire au cœur de la vie monastiqueDans cet ouvrage maintes fois réédité, Patrick Leigh Fermor se penche sur le monachisme chrétien, d’abord chez les bénédictins de l’abbaye de Saint-Wandrille, dans le Pays de Caux, chez qui il fit de...
Découvrez le premier tome de la trilogie Dans la nuit et le vent, une oeuvre encensée par la critique ! Un matin gris de décembre 1933, le jeune Patrick Leigh Fermor quitte l’Angleterre avec l’idée de traverser l’Europe à pied jusqu’à Constantinople. Une...
Découvrez le second tome de la trilogie Dans la nuit et le vent, une oeuvre encensée par la critique ! Un matin gris de décembre 1933, le jeune Patrick Leigh Fermor quitte l’Angleterre avec l’idée de traverser l’Europe à pied jusqu’à Constantinople. Une...
Découvrez le troisième tome de la trilogie Dans la nuit et le vent, une oeuvre encensée par la critique ! Un matin gris de décembre 1933, le jeune Patrick Leigh Fermor quitte l’Angleterre avec l’idée de traverser l’Europe à pied jusqu’à Constantinople....
Une trilogie encensée par la critique ! Marchez sur les traces de Patrick Leigh Fermor et découvrez l'Europe comme vous ne l'aviez jamais imaginéeUn matin gris de décembre 1933, le jeune Patrick Leigh Fermor quitte l’Angleterre avec l’idée de traverser l’Europe à pied...
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