Three Letters from the Andes

Zusatztext He makes exotic and entertaining friends wherever he goes! has read everything! been everywhere! known everyone and writes like a dream Informationen zum Autor After his famous walk across Europe - recounted in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water - Patrick Leigh Fermor lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania and fought in Greece and Crete - living disguised as a shepherd in the mountains for two years organising resistance activities. He was awarded the DSO and CBE, and a knighthood in the 2004 new Year Honours List. Klappentext The celebrated twentieth-century travel writer's remarkable journey through the high Andes of Peru.The celebrated twentieth-century travel writer's remarkable journey through the high Andes of Peru. Zusammenfassung The celebrated twentieth-century travel writer's remarkable journey through the high Andes of Peru.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.01.2005
• EAN: 9780719566851
• ISBN: 978-0-7195-6685-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Travel & holiday, Travel writing