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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
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel writing
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
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$27.99 NZD
Category: Travel writing
An insight into the calm and contemplative world of the monastery.
Abducting a General - The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$27.99 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Between the Woods and the Water - On foot to Constantinople - The middle Danube to the Iron Gates by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
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
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor; Deborah Mitford; Charlotte Mosley (Editor); Deborah Devonshire
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past. Roumeli describes Patrick Leigh Fe ...Show more
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. ' ...Show more
The Broken Road - From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: very good
A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III?' was the cry from his fans; bu ...Show more
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