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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 Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water ; he was a self-educated polymath, a lover of Greece and the best company in the world. Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Paddy and his cloest friends as well as having complete access to his archives. Her beautifully crafted biography portrays a man of extraordinary gifts - no one wore their learning so playfully, nor inspired such passionate friendship. 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
