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A time to keep silence
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Those who know the author as a man of action and a travel writer of distinction will find here a different kind of journey but with the same fine art of description and reflection, for it is a graphic account of his travels to the Benedictine abbey of St Wandrille, the abbey of Solesmes, the Cistercian monastery of La Grande Trappe, and the rock ...
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Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland
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The second volume in Fermor's triptych about his journey as a young man from Holland to Istanbul, on foot.
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A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
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The first volume (of three) describing Fermor's 18-month journey from Holland to Istanbul when he was a young man.
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Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
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A book about Greece, where he finally settled down, by the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor.
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Time of Gifts
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The first volume (of three) describing Fermor's 18-month journey from Holland to Istanbul when he was a young man.
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Between the Woods and the Water
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The second volume in Fermor's triptych about his journey as a young man from Holland to Istanbul, on foot.
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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Located at the heart of Europe's southernmost promontory, the Mani is one of the wildest, most isolated regions in Greece. In this fascinating book, Fermor bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to unfurl "the green and gold and gentle shades" of this undisturbed landscape.
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In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Patrick Leigh Fermor, Deborah Devonshire
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 highly entertaining letters. There can rarely have ...
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Cretan Runner
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George Psychoudakis, Patrick Leigh Fermor (Translator)
An enthralling account of the resistance in Crete, from the German invasion to the liberation, by one of its most active Cretan participants. His exhausting and dangerous duties as a guide and runner took him over some of the most precipitous country in Europe, carrying messages and supplies.
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Words of Mercury
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in "A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the Water". It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he developed his extraordinary sense of the continuity of history: a quality ...
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Mani: 2travels in the Southern Peloponnese
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Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Craxton (Illustrator)
This is about the remotest, the wildest and the most isolated region of Greece. Cut off from the rest of country by the towering range of the Taygetus, and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, this rocky central prong of the Peloponnese is the southern most point of Mediterranean Europe.
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Violins of Saint-Jacques
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Originally published in 1953, this story is set in the Caribbean on an island of tropical luxury, European decadence and romantic passion. It captures both the delicacy of high-society entanglements and the unforeseen drama of forces beyond human control.
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Three Letters from the Andes
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
The six friends who set off to climb in the Andes in the autumn of 1971 were as varied and remarkable as the characters in a novel. The expedition was led by Robin Fedden, the writer and poet, and his wife there was a Swiss international skier and jeweller, a social anthropologist from Provence who had fought in the French Resistance and a ...
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The Rash Adventurer: The Life of John Pendlebury
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Imogen Grundon, Patrick Leigh Fermor (Foreword by)
John Pendlebury (1904-41), the 'Cretan Lawrence', was shot in the first days of the German occupation of Crete while organising bands of guerrillas to fight the invaders. Not a professional soldier, Pendlebury was chosen for the task because of his intimate knowledge of Crete, its people and language, acquired through his years of archaeological ...
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Roumanian Journey
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Sacheverell Sitwell, Patrick Leigh Fermor (Foreword by)
With his expert knowledge of the history and culture of Europe, and his keen eye for the bizarre, Sacheveral Sitwell was the ideal guide to the people and places of 1930s Romania. Sweeping from the rich and varied scenery of the Carpathians and the plains of Transylvania and Wallachia to the Danube Delta, he introduces characters as diverse as ...
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Gigi Julie de Carneilhan
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Colette, Patrick Leigh Fermor (Translator), Roger Senhouse (Translator)
GIGI--which became the successful Lerner-Loewe movie musical--is the story of a young Parisian girl in training to be a courtesan, and the man-about-town who falls in love with her. As the delightful Gigi, one of Colette's most successful characters, batters with her lover Gaston against the rigid traditions of fin de siècle French society, ...
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The Seven Deadly Sins
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W H Auden, Cyril Connolly, Patrick Leigh Fermor
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The violins of Saint-Jacques : a tale of the Antilles
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Roumeli: 2travels in Northern Greece
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Roumeli is not to be found on maps of present-day Greece. Seduced by the strangeness and beauty of the name, Patrick Leigh Fermor has taken the title formerly used to describe Northern Greece to cover his random wanderings through this exotic region. Sharing in the celebrations of a wedding among the Sarakatsan Nomads, sleeping in the monastery of ...
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The Traveller's Tree: 2a Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
The account of a journey - by steamer and aeroplane and sailing ship - through the long island chain of the West Indies, and of the idiosyncraticand highly dissimilar civilisation that have sprung up amonst the Caribean Islands.
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Loose as the Wind (Penguin 60s)
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
The first two chapters from the autobiographical "Time of Gifts", about a young man's travels from London to Constantinople in 1934. It looks at his encounters in Europe, with locals and traditions, and also touches on the growing Nazi movement in Germany and the different cultures in Europe.
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The Traveller's Tree: Island-Hopping Through the Caribbean in the 1940's
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Includes Fermor's experience of the Caribbean as a mix of indigenous, African, and European cultures, as well as the juxtaposition of American advertisements with ancient cannibal practices.
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A British Achilles: The Story of George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe KBE, DSO, MC, FRS - Soldier, Diplomat, Politician
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Lorna Almonds Windmill, Patrick Leigh Fermor (Foreword by)
Son of the victor of Jutland, George Jellicoe has enjoyed power and privilege but never shirked his duty. His war exploits are legendary and, as a founder member of Stirling's SAS and first Commander of the Special Boat Service, he saw action a-plenty. A brigadier at 26 with a DSO and MC he liberated Athens as the Germans withdrew and saved Greece ...
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Traveller's Treee, The, 2nd Edition
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Find out what might make a cannibal eat his meal in depressed silence in Fermor's narrative of his experiences tooling around the Caribbean in the 1940s. This Anglo-Irish adventurer traveled by steamer, airplane, and sailboat along the entire length of the West Indian island chain. He was a very acute observer and carefully documented the unique ...
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The traveller's tree : a journey through the Caribbean Islands
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This is an account of a journey - by steamer and aeroplane and sailing ship - through the long island chain of the West Indies, and of the idiosyncratic and highly dissimilar civilizations that have sprung up amongst the Caribbean islands.
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