Patrick Leigh Fermor: 28 books
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Handsome, spirited, and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a wonderful friend.
The letters in...
The Broken Road
From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him almost a year. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts and Between...
Mani
Travels in the Southern Peloponnesse
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The Mani, at the tip of Greece’s—and Europe’s—southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a...
In Tearing Haste
Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Now in paperback, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire's witty, informative, and altogether delightful correspondence.
In the spring of 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore...
Un temps pour se taire
Voyage au cœur de la vie monastique
Language: French
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Un voyage spirituel et littéraire au cœur de la vie monastiqueDans cet ouvrage maintes fois réédité, Patrick Leigh Fermor se penche sur le monachisme chrétien, d’abord chez les bénédictins de l’abbaye de Saint-Wandrille, dans le Pays de Caux, chez qui il fit de nombreuses retraites à partir...
Dans la nuit et le vent
À pied de Londres à Constantinople (1933-1935)
Language: French
Release Date: July 29, 2014
**Une trilogie encensée par la critique ! **
Marchez sur les traces de Patrick Leigh Fermor et découvrez l'Europe comme vous ne l'aviez jamais imaginée
Un matin gris de décembre 1933, le jeune Patrick Leigh Fermor quitte l’Angleterre avec l’idée de traverser l’Europe à pied...
Roumeli
Travels in Northern Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece—stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past.
Roumeli describes Patrick...
Enlever un général
Coup d'éclat en Crète occupée
Language: French
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Une des plus audacieuses opérations commando de la Seconde Guerre mondialePeut-on être à la fois un héros des Services spéciaux de Sa Majesté et l’un des plus grands écrivains du XXe siècle ? Patrick Leigh Fermor nous le prouve ici.Dans ce récit inédit, il nous conte par le menu l’opération...
Abducting a General
The Kreipe Operation in Crete
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
One of the most daring feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s daring life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on April 26, 1944.
Abducting a General, now published for the first time in the United States, is Leigh Fermor’s own account of the kidnapping. Written...
Between the Woods and the Water
On Foot to Constantinople: From the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts
The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933—to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day—proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed...
Words of Mercury
Tales from a Lifetime of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A career-spanning anthology from the greatest traveler—and travel writer—of the twentieth century.
The adventures of Patrick “Paddy” Leigh Fermor, Britain’s most beloved traveler, began in 1933, when he embarked on a walk from Holland to Constantinople—the entire length of Europe—at...
The Traveller's Tree
A Journey Through the Carribean Islands
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree,...
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in A Time to Keep Silence, Leigh Fermor writes...
Mani
Viaggi nel Peloponneso
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Patrick Leigh Fermor è la massima approssimazione all’archetipo del viaggiatore di cui disponga il nostro mondo. Lo ha dimostrato fin dal 1933, quando, con un leggero zaino, si è lanciato in una traversata a piedi dell’Europa, da Londra a Istanbul, che ancora oggi non ha finito di raccontare....
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