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A Time of Gifts - On Foot to Constantinople - From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$27.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: BK 1 | Reading Level: good
'A Time of Gifts' sees Patrick Leigh Fermor setting out in 1933, at the age of 18, on his epic journey across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This first volume takes the reader as far as Hungary.
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.' In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on hi ...Show more
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping of Gene ...Show more
Abducting a General - The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dre ...Show more
Between the Woods and the Water - On foot to Constantinople - The middle Danube to the Iron Gates by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we trave ...Show more
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy's twenty-fifth birthday, the last when h ...Show more
Dashing for the Post - The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years ...Show more
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor; Deborah Mitford; Charlotte Mosley (Editor); Deborah Devonshire
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but highl ...Show more
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In the spring of 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. The halcyon visit sparked a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of highly entertainin ...Show more
Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
For the first time in John Murray B-format paperback, this is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a barely-written part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towerin ...Show more
Mani Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Mani, at the tip of Greece's-and Europe's-southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a part of its pe ...Show more
More Dashing - Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor; Adam Sisman (Volume Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor The first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume, More Dashing, presents a further selection of letters that exude a ze ...Show more