Jan Morris
On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey-to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his ... [... more]
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Biography - Fermor, Patrick Leigh (1915-): An article ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 5 Publication Date: 2007-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the ...
Simply wonderful: Patrick Leigh Fermor's work is a joy to read. I brought it with me this past summer when I was living/traveling in the former Yugoslavia and I have as many fond memories of reading that book on long bus rides as some of the places I [... more]
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Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to ...
Exquisitely between two worlds: Like most literary masterpieces this marvelous book has a outer vehicle that develops an inner theme. The vehicle is a journey on foot, horseback and barge across Europe in the 1930's when the author was 19. The inner [... more]
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Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (New York Review ...
Another Fermor Classic: I first encountered Fermor in his riveting accounts of his walk across Europe as World War II began descending. I was fascinated by his encyclopedic and poetic narrative. He made you feel you were walking alongside him. Now, his [... more]
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Words of Mercury
A Book of Marvels!: This edition brings together a number of essays by the greatest living master of English prose. Adventurer, war hero, philhellene, Patrick Leigh Fermor is that rarest of creatures, a man of action as well as a man of letters, an [... more]
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The Violins of Saint-Jacques: A Tale of the Antilles
Perfect "Book Vacation": Patrick Leigh Fermor is better known for his Travel Non-Fiction works, all of which are wonderful, but this book is one of the few I know that I would describe as perfect. It is the kind of fiction that magically [... more]
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A Time to Keep Silence (New York Review Books Classics)
"The Inner Empire": "A Time To Keep Silence" is travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor's beautifully written account of visits to a number of European monasteries (Benedictine and Cistercian) and later to the ruins of an even older [... more]
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Philhellene's progress: Patrick Leigh Fermor.: An ...
Author: Ben Downing Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 22 Publication Date: 2001-01-01 Release Date: 2005-07-28 [... more]
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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
A WORLD OF NOW-VANISHED WONDERS: MANI ... It is not for nothing that Patrick Leigh Fermor is generally considered the greatest living travel writer in English. Reading any one of his books, always a smooth, elegant and intellectually exciting undertaking, [... more]
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Three Letters from the Andes
A 'pot boiler' but enjoyable nonetheless: I enjoyed these letters only because I have to admire someone who can write letters as interesting and informative as this. Sadly though they are not on the same level as 'A Time of Gifts' or 'Between the Woods [... more]
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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (New York ...
Brilliant, heroic travel writing!: What a marvelous book! And written by a true, heroic genius. Fermor, a still living legend, seems to have disdained self-promotion, but upon reading a few pages of this book, you realize you have encountered a rare [... more]
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