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Words of Mercury

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Zusatztext He makes exotic and entertaining friends wherever he goes! has read everything! been everywhere and writes like a dream Informationen zum Autor 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 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. 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 . Klappentext Collected travel writings from one of the finest exponents of the genre. Features extracts from Fermor's best known works including "A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the Water". The hardback was a bestseller and received much acclaim. "The greatest of living travel writers" Jan Morris Zusammenfassung A collection of the most delightful and evocative pieces from books, journalism and letters by Patrick Leigh Fermor - the 'greatest living travel writer' (Jan Morris)

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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 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. 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.

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Authors Patrick Leigh Fermor, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Assisted by Artemis Cooper (Editor)
Publisher John Murray
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 19.07.2004
 
EAN 9780719561061
ISBN 978-0-7195-6106-1
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 130 mm x 197 mm x 18 mm
Subjects Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales
Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic

True stories, Travel and holiday

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