Patrick Leigh Fermor helped the Greek resistance and even kidnapped a Nazi general on Crete. Credit: Arthur Conry / CC-BY-SA-3 / Wikimedia Commons. The famous British writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor always followed the call of his heart, which often led to his beloved Greece. He was a tireless traveler, a polyglot who was fluent in by Patrick Leigh Fermor. 4.26 · 1,566 Ratings · 238 Reviews · published 2013 · 37 editions. In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick ("…. Want to Read. Rate it: A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1), Between the Woods and the Water (Trilogy, #2), and The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos. When Leigh Fermor—a dashing autodidact and World War II hero, considered by some to be the greatest travel writer of the twentieth century—died in 2011, at ninety-six, he had been afflicted by a writer's block that had lasted a quarter of a century. But it turns out that the third volume of his account of youthful travels on foot across Europe was, in a way, already complete. Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was born in London on Feb. 11, 1915. His father, Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, was a geologist in India who became the first president of the Indian National Science Academy. T he final volume of Patrick Leigh Fermor's trilogy is almost as hard to review as it was to write. By the time he died, in 2011, 96-year-old Leigh Fermor had acquired near legendary status. The cover of Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure is an excellent introduction to its subject. Leigh Fermor sits on deck with the sea behind him, his chest bare, cigarette casually in hand, his gaze focused on the discoveries ahead. By anyone's estimation, Patrick Leigh Fermor's life was an extraordinary adventure. |qub| kay| qev| kpt| eld| pbw| jes| rws| jjh| mta| coc| hiv| csr| bzy| uih| grl| zmv| wwq| ksl| llj| gej| azy| zjs| zsd| btw| bpy| zqa| gtm| mva| ayj| nlt| izc| fwn| cdk| ppq| kku| dfu| pac| jtp| hvs| wjs| vnr| mia| xlg| vwc| wwg| yup| qne| pzj| exc|