Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor - Softcover

Leigh Fermor, Patrick

 
9781473622494: Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1473622492 ISBN 13: 9781473622494
Verlag: John Murray, 2017

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A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

In December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople in early 1935. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzene, with whom he lived - mostly in Rumania - until the outbreak of war. Serving in occupied Crete, he led a successful operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO and was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. After the war he began writing, and travelled extensively round Greece with Joan Eyres Monsell whom he later married. Towards the end of his life he wrote the first two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, unfinished at the time of his death in 2011, which has since been edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road.

Adam Sisman is the author of several biographies, most recently of John le Carré. His Boswell's Presumptuous Task won the prestigious US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He is also co-editor of One Hundred Letters, a volume of selected letters of Hugh Trevor-Roper. Adam is an Honorary Fellow of the University of St Andrews, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Verlag
John Murray
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1473622492
ISBN 13 
9781473622494
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
496
Herausgeber
Sisman Adam
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