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A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: New York Review Books Classics
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water" continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carp ...Show more
A Time of Gifts - On Foot to Constantinople - From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | 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 to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$27.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, "A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the Water." During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in "A Time to Keep Silence," Leigh Fermor wr ...Show more
Abducting a General by Fermor Patrick Leigh
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
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
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | 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
$22.99 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
Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: John Murray Travel Classics
"All of Greece is absorbing and rewarding. There is hardly a rock or stream without a battle or myth or miracle or superstition; and talk and incident, nearly all of it memorable, thicken round the traveller's path at every step". This fusion of scholarship, history and imagination, bears this out. ...Show more
Mani Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$21.00 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