Patrick Paddy Michael Leigh Fermor, OBE, DSO (Londres, 11 de febrero de 1915 Worcestershire, 10 de junio de 2011), fue un escritor, historiador y soldado británico, que jugó un papel decisivo tras las líneas en la Batalla de Creta durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Como escritor es famoso en el género de la literatura de viajes.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6106-1
EAN 9780719561061
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 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6692-9
EAN 9780719566929
Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a pair of Byron's slippers.Roumeli is not on modern maps: it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6696-7
EAN 9780719566967
The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel ...
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Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-5529-9
EAN 9780719555299
On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano and, in time, she shares the story of her youth there in the early twentieth century. Set in the tropical luxury of the island ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-5527-5
EAN 9780719555275
From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries ...
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