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A Time to Keep Silence (New York Review Books Classics)

4 reviews
Patrick Leigh Fermor

NYRB Classics, 2007

"The Inner Empire"
"A Time To Keep Silence" is travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor's beautifully written account of visits to a number of European monasteries (Benedictine and Cistercian) and later to the ruins of an even older Turkish desert community in his efforts to understand the continuing appeal of the monastic way of life. An outsider, Fermor frankly acknowledges his contemporary bias, making it clear he's ...

Words of Mercury

1 review

John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004

A Book of Marvels!
This edition brings together a number of essays by the greatest living master of English prose. Adventurer, war hero, philhellene, Patrick Leigh Fermor is that rarest of creatures, a man of action as well as a man of letters, an appreciator of solitude as well as a writer whose gift for friendship is legendary. This collection will surely enchant the many admirers of Sir Paddy, who is ...

Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates (New ...

8 reviews
Patrick Leigh Fermor

NYRB Classics, 2005

Gar nichts!
The title above is German for "Absolutely nothing!", Fermor's droll reply to "What are you studying?" when visiting a scholar with his newfound Transylvanian friend Istvan, who laughs about such blasphemy all the way back from the visit. The polymathic Fermor had contemplated his answer a few moments before answering-"Languages? Art? Geography? Folklore? Literature? None of them seemed to fit." ...

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (New York Review Books Classics)

1 review
Patrick Leigh Fermor

NYRB Classics, 2006

Another Fermor Classic
I first encountered Fermor in his riveting accounts of his walk across Europe as World War II began descending. I was fascinated by his encyclopedic and poetic narrative. He made you feel you were walking alongside him. Now, his travels take us to Roumeli, the old name for northern Greece and Macedonia. Again, Fermor takes us on a poetic and detailed odyssey through villages and rugged Greek ...

A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (New York Review ...

21 reviews
Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jan Morris

NYRB Classics, 2005

Simply wonderful
Patrick Leigh Fermor's work is a joy to read. I brought it with me this past summer when I was living/traveling in the former Yugoslavia and I have as many fond memories of reading that book on long bus rides as some of the places I experienced. I ended up giving it away to a friend I had met as a present and I miss it dearly now and plan on purchasing it again when I have the funds. His ...

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (New York Review Books Classics)

7 reviews
Patrick Leigh Fermor

NYRB Classics, 2006

Brilliant, heroic travel writing!
What a marvelous book! And written by a true, heroic genius. Fermor, a still living legend, seems to have disdained self-promotion, but upon reading a few pages of this book, you realize you have encountered a rare individual. First, his writing. Encyclopedic, detailed, sensual, and imaginative. It exemplifies the finest characteristics of travel writing, and best of all, he explores a ...

Gigi, Julie de Carneilha, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels

2 reviews
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

Collected Stories By A French Master
Gabrielle Colette died in 1954. She is most famous for writing "Gigi" which became a Broadway musical and Oscar winning film. Gabrielle was a talented, gifted writer, with aesthetic skills and a charming perception of humans, particularily the society she grew up in early twentieth century France. A fascinating woman, she wrote mainly short stories, dealing with women coming of age, older women ...

The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury
Imogen Grundon

Libri Publications, 2007

John Pendlebury (1904-41), the "Cretan Lawrence", was shot in the first months of the German occupation of Crete while organizing bands of guerrillas to fight the invaders. Not a professional soldier, Pendlebury was chosen for the task because of his intimate knowledge of Crete, its people and language, acquired through his years of archaeological experience on the island. As Curator at Knossos, successor to Sir Arthur Evans, his athleticism and ...

The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands

1 review
Patrick Leigh Fermor

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991

Interesting, but overly pompous and flowery wording
Got this based on a "top books on the Carribean" review in one of the popular travel magazines. The book is old, so some of the word choice and writing style is very out of date. The descriptions of things, areas, and experiences are indeed very good and detailed, but the prose is so flowery that it comes across as very pompous and unnecessarilly wordy. I've never read a book with so many ...

Letters
Duchess of Devonshire, Patrick Leigh Fermor

Hodder Murray, 2008

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