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Patrick Leigh Fermor
In December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople in early 1935. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens...view moreIn December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople in early 1935. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzene, with whom he lived - mostly in Rumania - until the outbreak of war. Serving in occupied Crete, he led a successful operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO and was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. After the war he began writing, and travelled extensively round Greece with Joan Eyres Monsell whom he later married. Towards the end of his life he wrote the first two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, unfinished at the time of his death in 2011, which has since been edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road.view less
Books by Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time to Keep Silence Words of Mercury: Tales from a Lifetime of Travel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A British Achilles: The Story of George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe KBE DSO MC FRS Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnesse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Violins of Saint-Jacques Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation in Crete Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Audiobooks by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings