A wandering Englishman whose gift of languages and whose audacity remind one of Lawrence of Arabia, PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR was the British Commando who during the war commanded the operation which ...
The greatest 20th-century Britons often had a bit of the 19th century in them, if not, at times, the spirit of antiquity. Winston Churchill witnessed as a young war correspondent perhaps the last ...
Long before Patrick Leigh Fermor died June 10 at age 96, his extraordinary achievements as a writer, adventurer and war hero had entered into legend. At 18, he set out across Europe on foot, reciting ...
MANI (320 pp.)—Patrick Leigh Fermor —Harper ($6). “When God had finished making the world,” say the natives of Mani, “he had a sack of stones left over and he emptied it here.” Petroprolific Mani is ...
When the British travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor first entered the Abbey of St. Wandrille de Fontenelle, he must have felt like he was checking himself into rehab. Fermor was hoping the peace and ...
In her arresting biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, an ever-curious travel writer known for experiencing locales at ground- level, Cooper (Writing at the Kitchen Table), studies a man determined to ...
To describe Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died on June 10 at age 96, as a travel writer is like saying Maria Callas could carry a tune. It wasn’t just that his books were wise, beautifully observed pieces ...
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