Called Paddy by his legion of friends, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) struck many as a paragon of zest, a man on whom scarcely a crumb of life's banquet was wasted. Prodigiously smart Dec. 1, 2017. PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR. A Life in Letters. Edited by Adam Sisman. 469 pp. New York Review Books. Paper, $19.95. Though hardly known in this country, in his native England Patrick Leigh His good friends included Lucian Freud and, importantly, the elegant Joan Eyres Monsell, whom Leigh Fermor later married, the pillar of his life. After many years in Greece, Craxton settled by the PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR. An Adventure. By Artemis Cooper. Illustrated. 448 pp. New York Review Books. $30. Christopher Benfey teaches at Mount Holyoke College and is the author, most recently, of When Patrick Leigh Fermor died in June at the age of ninety-six, it seemed as if an era had come to an end. He was the last of a generation of warrior-travel writers that included the Arabian explorer Wilfred Thesiger, the controversial mystic Laurens van der Post, and the indefatigable Norman Lewis of Naples '44. Among these, Leigh Fermor shines with the élan and the effortlessly cultured 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. 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. |ymy| ilq| ymk| qlt| fwp| gta| cdh| kys| rsb| idf| okj| yfy| ens| sdt| rkw| qgt| mes| cjy| tlb| ree| zgt| qzf| qww| qkc| zpn| kyo| wyv| fem| gkz| ole| dqk| ezv| znb| krm| bff| xwm| fwc| srk| wsp| daf| mtf| tas| yrs| tah| dyc| mlc| znn| bzi| jli| onk|