Patrick Leigh Fermor
Subtitle: an adventure
By: Artemis Cooper
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781590176740
Subjects: Soldiers; Travel; Travel writers; Biography
Description: A biography of the adventurer, soldier, and author whose "enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. Before the year was out, he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, while his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally happy in caves or country houses, among shepherds or countesses"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : John Murray (Publishers), 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-430) and index.
Table of contents: title: Neverland --; title: The plan --; title: "Zu Fuss nach Konstantinopel" --; title: An enchanted summer --; title: Bulgaria to Mount Athos --; title: Balasha --; title: An intelligence officer --; title: Crete and General Carta --; title: Setting the trap --; title: The Hussar stunt --; title: The British Institute, Athens --; title: The Caribbean --; title: Writing The traveller's tree --; title: Travels in Greece --; title: Byron's slippers --; title: Cyprus --; title: In Africa and Italy --; title: A visit to Rumania --; title: A monastery built for two --; title: Shifts in perspective --; title: "For now the time of gifts is gone" -- -- Appendices 1:; title: A note on the Green diary and 'A youthful journey' ; -- 2:; title: Patrick Leigh Fermor's walk across Europe, 1933-5.