Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Patrick Leigh Fermorâ‚¬s enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally happy in caves or country houses, among shepherds or countesses.
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At the outbreak of war he left his lover, Princess Balasha Cantacuzene, in Romania and returned to England to enlist. Commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, he became one of the handful of Allied officers supporting the Cretan resistance to the German occupation. In 1944 he commanded the Anglo-Cretan team that abducted General Heinrich Kreipe and spirited him away to Egypt.
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A journey to the Caribbean, stays in monasteries, and explorations all over Greece provided the subjects for his first books. It was not until he and his wife had moved to southern Greece that he returned to his earliest walk. In these books, which took many years to write, he created a vision of a prewar Europe, which in its beauty and abundance has never been equaled.
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Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Leigh Fermor and his closest friends, and has had complete access to his archive. Her beautifully crafted biography portrays a man of extraordinary giftsâ‚¬"no one wore their learning so playfully nor inspired such passionate friendship.
Country USA
Manufacturer New York Review Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-10-15
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781590176993

Country	USA
Manufacturer	New York Review Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-10-15
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781590176993