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Zusatztext Artemis Cooper does a wonderful job of retelling the story of how 'Paddy' tramped across Europe in the 1930s! slept with princesses and kidnapped Nazis on his beloved island of Crete. Affectionate but never credulous! Cooper gets the measure of the man Informationen zum Autor Artemis Cooper is the author of a number of books including Cairo in the War, 1939-1945 , Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David and, most recently, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure . With her husband, Antony Beevor, she wrote Paris After the Liberation, 1945-1949 . She has edited two collections of letters as well as Words of Mercury , an anthology of the work of Patrick Leigh Fermor; and, with Colin Thubron, she edited The Broken Road , the final volume of Leigh Fermor's European trilogy. Klappentext Paperback edition of the bestselling biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, the war hero and acclaimed travel writer. Cooper draws on years of interviews and conversations with Paddy and his closest friends, and had complete access to his archives. Portrays a man of extraordinary gifts, a self-educated polymath, a lover of Greece and author of "A Time Of Gifts, Between The Woods & The Water" and many other books. 'At last his biography has been detailed in full, in Artemis Cooper's tender and excellent book' Robert MacFarlane The authorized biography shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year, the National Book Awards and the Costa Biography Award Zusammenfassung The authorized biography shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year, the National Book Awards and the Costa Biography Award
