Words of Mercury
$38.35
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2004
Summary
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 that deepens the colours of every place he writes about, from the peaks of the Pyrenees to the cell of a Trappist monastery.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719561061 |
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| ISBN-10: | 071956106X |
| Author: | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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There is a pleasure to be had on every page. Here is a writer who can find something fascinating in the dullest characters and the most drab towns. He is a master stylist, too, revelling in the possibilities of language, striving always to be exact. Few travel writers can create atmosphere quite as thickly, but then few have such extraordinary anecdotes to tell…it [the anthology] serves as a reminder that Leigh Fermor is one of the greatest travel writers of all time - Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times
‘The finest travel writer of his generation’ Colin Thubron‘The greatest of living travel writers’ Jan MorrisPatrick Leigh Fermor is an exquisite among travel writers - Sunday TelegraphPaddy Leigh Fermor - war hero, linguist, adventurer - is at heart a great storyteller … he draws the reader, like his huge acquaintance, into instant intimacy. His achievement is to be who he is - even more than what he has done. This collection beautifully illustrates both. - Max Hastings, SUNDAY TELEGRAPHHe makes exotic and entertaining friends wherever he goes, has read everything, been everywhere and writes like a dream - The TimesAbout The Author
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor lives in Greece in a house he designed and built.
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