Between the Woods and the Water, Patrick Leigh Fermor

Автор: Leigh Fermor Patrick
Название: Abducting a General
ISBN: 1444796607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781444796605
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: 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`.

Автор: Leigh Fermor, Patrick
Название: Between the Woods and the Water
ISBN: 1590171667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590171660
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts

The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933--to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day--proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed into more than one volume. Undertaken as the storms of war gathered, and providing a background for the events that were beginning to unfold in Central Europe, Leigh Fermor's still-unfinished account of his journey has established itself as a modern classic. Between the Woods and the Water, the second volume of a projected three, has garnered as many prizes as its celebrated predecessor, A Time of Gifts.

The opening of the book finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danube--at the very moment where his first volume left off. A detour to the luminous splendors of Prague is followed by a trip downriver to Budapest, passage on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain, and a crossing of the Romanian border into Transylvania. Remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges that are the haunt of bears, wolves, eagles, gypsies, and a variety of sects are all savored in the approach to the Iron Gates, the division between the Carpathian mountains and the Balkans, where, for now, the story ends.

Автор: Cooper Artemis
Название: Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
ISBN: 1590177800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590177808
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 14070.00 T
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Описание: Patrick Leigh Fermor's enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally happy in caves or country houses, among shepherds or countesses.

At the outbreak of war he left his lover, Princess Balasha Cantacuzene, in Romania and returned to England to enlist. Commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, he became one of the handful of Allied officers supporting the Cretan resistance to the German occupation. In 1944 he commanded the Anglo-Cretan team that abducted General Heinrich Kreipe and spirited him away to Egypt.

A journey to the Caribbean, stays in monasteries, and explorations all over Greece provided the subjects for his first books. It was not until he and his wife had moved to southern Greece that he returned to his earliest walk. In these books, which took many years to write, he created a vision of a prewar Europe, which in its beauty and abundance has never been equaled.

Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Leigh Fermor and his closest friends, and has had complete access to his archive. Her beautifully crafted biography, now available in paperback, portrays a man of extraordinary gifts--no one wore their learning so playfully nor inspired such passionate friendship.

Автор: Leigh Fermor Patrick
Название: Broken Road
ISBN: 1848547544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848547544
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor - hailed as the greatest travel writer of his generation.

Автор: Artemis Cooper
Название: Patrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN: 0719565499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719565496
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: The authorized biography shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year, the National Book Awards and the Costa Biography Award