10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEIGH FERMOR»
Discover the use of
Leigh Fermor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Leigh Fermor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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 only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its ...
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2010
2
Patrick
Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of ...
In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of 'supernatural windfall' which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2011
4
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
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 Constantinople.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2013
This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2010
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.
Deborah Devonshire, Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2010
7
Between the Woods and the Water
Although Between the Woods and the Water was published nine years after A Time of Gifts, Fermor is famously still at work on the concluding part of his trilogy.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2010
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.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2010
Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2010
10
Three Letters from the Andes
In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2005
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEIGH FERMOR»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Leigh Fermor is used in the context of the following news items.
The reader's guide to walking: Why we do it and what we think about it
... Eric Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958), Patrick Leigh Fermor's trilogy of his walk from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul between ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
How to make Greece rich
It is Byron's name carved into the columns of Sounion; Lawrence Durrell and Patrick Leigh Fermor are the epitomes of this fervor. Long before ... «Politico, Jul 15»
The List of One-Novel Novelists Is Shorter by One
... a travel writer (Patrick Leigh Fermor); a politician (Benjamin Constant); and a would-be politician who may yet write another novel (Arundhati ... «Commonweal, Jul 15»
In Sickness and In Health: The 'brain books' which provide comfort …
Then, one night, I went to bed with a bottle of wine and picked up A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor, something I'd been intending to read ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Helias Doundoulakis Releases TRAINED TO BE AN OSS SPY
... befriending the likes of Patrick Leigh Fermor. When the movement's existence was revealed, they quickly escaped through the mountains of ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
Interiors: Modern family life in a 16th century home
... still lifes of the John Murray Archive, which includes the papers of Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle and Patrick Leigh Fermor among others. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Edward McMillan-Scott: Chronicle of a debt foretold for poor old …
Only last month he presented a tribute to another Hellenophile, war hero and travel writer Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor. “Paddy”, as he was ... «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»
60 Degrees North by Malachy Tallack review – around the world in …
... is they lug along in their knapsacks the same standard-issue English romanticism as their forebears – Leigh Fermor, Thubron, Newby et al. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award: shortlist announced
... Leigh Fermor on his epic 1930s trek from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn; A Journey into Russia by Jens Mühling (Haus Publishing), ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
In the footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor along the Rhine
The scene:In 1933, young Englishman Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on a journey across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul, “like a ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
