In her arresting biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, an ever-curious travel writer known for experiencing locales at ground- level, Cooper (Writing at the Kitchen Table), studies a man determined to ...
Washington Examiner: From Memory to Myth: The Adventures of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor, one of travel literature's most colorful, beguiling pedestrians, famously decided to walk across Europe when he was 18. Why not? He'd failed out of every school he'd gone to, ...
In the summer of 1947, Patrick Leigh Fermor rang the London publisher John Murray to ask if he would be interested in a book about wartime Greece. Fermor had had an illustrious war and was moderately ...
Patrick Leigh Fermor cut a dashing figure. Contemporaries likened him to Byron. He played Indiana Jones before Harrison Ford. As a young man, Leigh Fermor walked most of the length of Europe in a ...
When the British travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor first entered the Abbey of St. Wandrille de Fontenelle, he must have felt like he was checking himself into rehab. Fermor was hoping the peace and ...
MANI (320 pp.)—Patrick Leigh Fermor —Harper ($6). “When God had finished making the world,” say the natives of Mani, “he had a sack of stones left over and he emptied it here.” Petroprolific Mani is ...
Wall Street Journal: Book Review: 'The Broken Road' by Patrick Leigh Fermor
To describe Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died on June 10 at age 96, as a travel writer is like saying Maria Callas could carry a tune. It wasn’t just that his books were wise, beautifully observed pieces ...