Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Resumen del libro

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 Woods 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.

Biografía del autor

Artemis Cooper (1953) es una historiadora, biógrafa y editora británica que, entre otras obras, se ha encargado de la preparación de Words of Mercury de Patrick Leigh Fermor y del epistolario entre Evelyn Waugh y Diana Cooper. Además ha escrito diversos libros como Cairo in the War, 1939-1945 o Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David. También es coautora, junto con su marido Antony Beevor, de París después de la liberación.