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  • The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (Nyrb Classics Ser.)

    The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (Nyrb Classics Ser.)

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinop... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2013
  • Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

    Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.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 spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy year... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1940
  • Roumeli: Travels In Northern Greece (John Murray Travel Classics)

    Roumeli: Travels In Northern Greece (John Murray Travel Classics)

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a p... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2003
  • Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

    Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping of ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2014
  • The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands

    The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the West Indies by steamer, aeroplan... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1950
  • Mani

    Mani

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1958
  • The Violins of Saint-Jacques (Twentieth-century Classics Ser.)

    The Violins of Saint-Jacques (Twentieth-century Classics Ser.)

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano, and, in time, she shares the story of her youth there in the early twentieth century. Set in the tropical luxury of ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1985
  • Roumeli

    Roumeli

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a p... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1966
  • A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

    A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary.It is a book of compelling glimpses - not on... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1977
  • Words of Mercury

    Words of Mercury

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he developed his extraordinary s... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2003
  • Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

    Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we t... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1986
  • A Time to Keep Silence

    A Time to Keep Silence

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1957
  • A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

    A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary.It is a book of compelling glimpses - not on... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1977
  • The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

    The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinopl... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2013
  • Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

    Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we t... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1986
  • The Broken Road

    The Broken Road

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

    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 th... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2013
  • The Cretan Runner

    The Cretan Runner

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor • George Psychoundakis

    George Psychoundakis was a twenty-one-year-old shepherd from the village of Asi Gonia when the battle of Crete began: "It was in May 1941 that, all of a sudden, high in the sky, we heard the drone of many aeroplanes growing steadily closer." The German parachutists soon outnumbered the British t... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1998
  • Abducting a General

    Abducting a General

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor • Roderick Bailey

    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 in his in... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2014
  • The Violins of Saint-Jacques

    The Violins of Saint-Jacques

    by James Campbell • Patrick Leigh Fermor

    "Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to raise a genuine shiver--possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is a small timeless masterpiece."--Phoebe Lou Adams, The AtlanticPatrick Leigh Fermor’s only novel ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2004
  • Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters

    Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor • Adam Sisman

    <p>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. <p>He was also a wonderful friend. The letters in this co... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2012
  • Between the Woods and the Water

    Between the Woods and the Water

    by Jan Morris • Patrick Leigh Fermor

    Continuing the journey on foot across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts Between the Woods and the Water begins where its predecessor, A Time of Gifts, leaves off--in 1934, with the nineteen-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor standing on a bridge crossing the Danube between Hungary and Slovakia. A tri... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1986
  • Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

    Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

    by Michael Gorra • Patrick Leigh Fermor

    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 muc... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1958
  • A Time to Keep Silence

    A Time to Keep Silence

    by Karen Armstrong • Patrick Leigh Fermor

    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 writ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1982
  • In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor

    In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor

    by Deborah Devonshire • Patrick Leigh Fermor

    In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but h... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2008
  • Roumeli

    Roumeli

    by Patricia Storace • Patrick Leigh Fermor

    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 Leigh... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1966
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