London : John Murray, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm. Summary: Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A TIME OF GIFTS and BETWEEN THE ROODS AND THE WATER; he was a self-educated polymath, a lover of Greece and the best company in the world. Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Paddy and his cloest friends as well as having complete access to his archives. Her beautifully crafted biography portrays a man of extraordinary gifts - no one wore their learning so playfully, nor inspired such passionate friendship. Subjects: Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Travel writers Great Britain ; Biography Soldiers Great Britain ; Biography. Genre: Biography. Language: English.

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Artemis Cooper is the author of several books, including Cairo in the War, 1939–1945 ; the authorized biography of Elizabeth David, Writing at the Kitchen Table ; and with her husband, the historian Antony Beevor, Paris After the Liberation, 1944–1949 . Among the volumes she has edited are Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Words of Mercury and the correspondence between Evelyn Waugh and Cooper’s famous grandmother, Lady Diana Cooper. Six books by Patrick Leigh Fermor are published by NYRB Classics: A Time of Gifts ; Between the Woods and the Water ; A Time to Keep Silence ; Mani ; Roumeli ; and The Traveller's Tree . Also, NYRB is the publisher of In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor .

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Bookseller: MW Books Ltd. (IE)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 360045
Title: Patrick Leigh Fermor : an adventure
Author: Cooper, Artemis
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0719554497
ISBN 13: 9780719554490
Publisher: London : John Murray
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2012

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