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 Patrick Leigh Fermor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Patrick 'Paddy' Michael Leigh Fermor,(born 11 February 1915, London) is a British author, scholar and soldier, who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Battle of Crete during World War II.
As a child, Leigh Fermor had problems with academic structure and limitations.
The documentary, produced by filmmakers Christos and Michael Epperson, contains extensive interview segments with Leigh Fermor, filmed in 2003, in which he recounts in great detail his service in the S.O.E. and his activities on Crete, including the capture of General Kreipe.
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 [MGSA-L] PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR
Fermor, who was knighted in 2003, is best known in Greece and in his native Britain, where he was born 92 years ago.
Fermor reported little in the way of reprisals, but another observer, Dr Michael E. Paradise, whose father and two brothers were members of the British intelligence group on Crete, disagrees.
Similar praise was bestowed on «Roumeli,» Fermor and Rayner's portrait of the northeast corner of Greece, including Mesolongi where Lord Byron (one of Fermor's heroes) fought and died for Greece, when it was published eight years later.
maillists.uci.edu /mailman/public/mgsa-l/2006-July/007122.html   (1460 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Time of Gifts: Books: Patrick Leigh Fermor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Patrick Fermor is currently a Companion of Literature, an honour conferred by the Royal Society of Literature on a select company of up to 10 writers at a time.
Fermor sleeps in haystacks and baronial halls, dines with gypsies and aristocrats, and is taught history by counts and cowherds as he crosses frontier after frontier in the indian summer of prewar Europe.
Patrick Leigh Fermor charts a young Englishman's trek from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople giving a sensitively detailed and evocative description of Europe before the destruction of the Second World War.
www.amazon.ca /Time-Gifts-Patrick-Leigh-Fermor/dp/1850891923   (994 words)

  
 Philhellene's progress: Patrick Leigh Fermor by Ben Downing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Leigh Fermor’s treatment of Germany, whose capacity for barbarism he later felt at close quarters, is remarkably even-handed.
Yet another of Leigh Fermor’s hobbyhorses is costume, of whose history and lexicon he evinces a knowledge almost unseemly in a heterosexual male; clearly a fashion-plate himself, he can’t resist cataloging the dress of everyone he comes across.
Chatwin’s latest biographer, Nicholas Shakespeare, describes Leigh Fermor as Chatwin’s “last guru” and “a man of action and of knowledge to a degree that Bruce envied.” Chatwin’s ashes are buried near the Leigh Fermors’ house.
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 Amazon.co.uk: A Time to Keep Silence: Books: Patrick Leigh Fermor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Leigh Fermor's narrative style can at times seem too introspective, or perhaps a little scholarly, for modern sensibilities: he describes as if through a magnifying lens, and with great erudition, making no compromises to the reader.
Leigh Fermor's prose is the sort that cannot be broken down: it is concise and evocative, free-flowing, a rare blend of terseness and poetry.
www.amazon.co.uk /Time-Silence-Patrick-Leigh-Fermor/dp/0719555272   (748 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Magazine | Faces of the week
Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor - known to his many friends as Paddy - was born in London on 11 February 1915.
At the outbreak of World War II Sir Patrick, with his intimate knowledge of south-eastern Europe and first-class linguistic skills, found himself serving in the Special Operations Executive, the forerunner of the modern secret services formed by Churchill to "set Europe ablaze".
As Major Leigh Fermor and his colleague Major Stanley 'Billy' Moss were dressed as German corporals, capture would have meant certain death.
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 Patrick Leigh-Fermor - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, (también apodado 'Paddy'), nacido en Londres en 1915 es un escritor, historiador y soldado británico, que jugó un papel decisivo tras las líneas en la Batalla de Creta durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Tras muchos años juntos, Leigh Fermor se casó en 1968 con Joan Elizabeth Rayner, nacida Eyres Monsell, hija de Bolton Eyres-Monsell, primer Vizconde Monsell, quien le acompañó en muchos de sus viajes hasta su muerte en Kardamyli en junio de 2003 a los 91.
Patrick Leigh Fermor fue nombrado caballero en Febrero del 2004.
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 Patrick (Michael) Leigh Fermor Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Patrick Leigh Fermor's life and travel books have earned him comparison with T. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and a reputation as one of the foremost travel writers of the twentieth century.
Writing in The New York Times (5 December 1986), John Gross called Leigh Fermor "the preeminent English travel writer of his generation." Leigh Fermor's writing often focuses on areas not particularly well known to American and western European readers, including the Balkans, prewar Slovakia and Hungary, the southern Peloponnese, and the Andes.
Leigh Fermor's meticulousness, attention to detail, scholarship, and wide-ranging interests make his books valuable eyewitness accounts of cultures that have changed dramatically or even disappeared since his visits to them.
www.bookrags.com /biography/patrick-michael-leigh-fermor-dlb   (212 words)

  
 Fermor, Leigh Patrick; Fermor, Patrick Leigh; Morris, Jan: Between the Woods and the Water   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Fermor, Leigh Patrick; Fermor, Patrick Leigh; Morris, Jan: Between the Woods and the Water
The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor began in 1933 at the age of eighteen-to cross Europe on foot with an 'emergency' allowance of a pound a day-proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed into more than one volume.
The opening of "Between the Woods and the Water" finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danube, at the moment where his first volume-"A Time of Gifts"-left off.
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 Random House | Books | Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a part of its people’s daily lives.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, who has been described as “a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene,” bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to reveal an ancient world living alongside the twentieth century.
Here, in the book that confirmed his reputation as one of the English language’s finest writers of prose, Patrick Leigh Fermor carries the reader with him on his journeys among the Greeks of the mountains, exploring their history and time-honored lore.
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PLF opens the chapter with an encounter in Panama, where a Greek, mistaking him for a fellow-countryman, asked : 'Romios eisai?' (are you a Greek?).
This encounter was a sudden shaft of light and cheer in a rather dispiriting sojourn, and, as I made my way back to my quarters,...
PLF goes on to talk about Karayiozi, a typical Romios, and continues:
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 The Traveller's Tree - Patrick Leigh Fermor - eBooks
Find out what might make a cannibal eat his meal in depressed silence in Fermor's narrative of his experiences tooling around the Caribbean in the 1940's.
The mixtures of cultures and religions in the Caribbean are unique in the world, and the author writes down every detail of what he sees, from Voodoo rituals to eclectic fashion.
Although Fermor had travelled extensively, he found the West Indies to be unlike anything he could have imagined, and each new experience is a surprise.
www.ebookmall.com /alpha-titles/Travellers-Tree-Fermor-Narrative-cr.htm   (558 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Three Letters from the Andes: Books: Patrick Leigh Fermor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It reads as if Fermor were at your dining table recounting the journey over a glass of wine.
The book is simply a commentary of a trip Leigh Fermor and some friends of his made in the Andes, nothing of any consequence happens, except that Fermor paints a particularly lucid picture of the scenery and the people in the area.
The Book is a series of three letters Fermor wrote to his wife during his adventures.
www.amazon.com /Three-Letters-Andes-Patrick-Fermor/dp/0140167889   (932 words)

  
 A Time of Gifts -- Leigh Patrick Fermor Patrick Leigh Fermor Jan Morris
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey -- to walk to Constantinople.
Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed -- through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire, up the Rhine and down to the Danube.
At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, "A Time of Gifts" is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.
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 In Leigh Fermor's Footsteps: Athens to Istanbul
The sun was just beginning to rise over Microlimano; the Greek flag fluttered above the yacht club below in the gentle dawn breeze as the masts of the humble caiques lining the shore bobbed up and down.
The time had come to fulfil a vow I had made while studying for my DPhil degree at Oxford, inspired by a chance meeting with the philhellene writer Patrick Leigh Fermor.
My tama - or vow - was inspired by Fermor's own sojourn to Constantinople back in 1932, of which he wrote in his celebrated book A Time of Gifts.
www.helleniccomserve.com /leighfermor.html   (2135 words)

  
 BFI | Film & TV Database | PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR (1989)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Documentary profile of the travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor including an interview with him.
His wartime exploits in the Greek resistance were dramatised in the film ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT.
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 Patrick Leigh Fermor Quotes
Quotes By author - Starting with P - Patrick Leigh Fermor
Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the flball.
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 Live From The FDNF: The Joys Of Reading Patrick Leigh Fermor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Discussion, study, analysis and the irregular sea story from a 7th Fleet sailor.
While revisiting (for the 3rd time already) Patrick Leigh Fermor's masterful "A Time Of Gifts" and "Between The Woods And The Water", I've finally started compiling notes for the purpose of not missing out on Fermor's many "gifts" of detail, hindsight and description.
One day I'll post a list of the many books that I have purchased and read (mostly with delight and wonder) thanks to being touted, described or mentioned by Kaplan in his many books.
fdnf.typepad.com /live_from_the_fdnf/2006/02/the_joys_of_rea.html   (738 words)

  
 New Statesman - Patrick Leigh Fermor
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 1 March 1963.
The author of The Traveller's Tree and A Time of Gifts, Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor is the doyen of British travel writers.
He is also the central figure of W Stanley Moss's Ill Met By Moonlight, a true tale of derring-do in wartime Crete.
www.newstatesman.com /writers/Patrick_Leigh_Fermor   (103 words)

  
 Books by Patrick Leigh Fermor, compare prices
by Patricia Storace (Introduction by), Patrick Leigh Fermor
by Jan Morris (Introduction by), Patrick Leigh Fermor
Between the Woods And the Water : On Foot To Constantinople The Middle Danube To The Iron Gates
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 Patrick Leigh Fermor on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
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Also known as: Patick Leigh Fermor, Patrick L. Fermor, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Patrick Leigh Fermor
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 Search Results for patrick leigh fermor a time of gifts - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Search Results for patrick leigh fermor a time of gifts - Direct Textbook
A time of gifts: On foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Philhellene's progress: Patrick Leigh Fermor.: An article from: New Criterion by Ben Downing
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 Between the Woods and the Water
The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor began in 1933 at the age of eighteen -- to cross Europe on foot with an 'emergency' allowance of a pound a day -- proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed into more than one volume.
Between the Woods and the Water has won as many prestigious awards as its predecessor.
The opening of "Between the Woods and the Water" finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danube, at the moment where his first volume -- A Time of Gifts -- left off.
www.globecorner.com /t/t42/21039.php   (269 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Between the Woods and the Water (New York Review Books Classics) by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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 Patrick Leigh-Fermor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor
Leigh Fermor effortlessly interweaves anecdote, history and culture in this exuberant account of a walk as a young man in 1933 across Europe.
This first volume chronicles his trip from the Hook of Holland, up the Rhine and down the Danube.
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 Textbooks by Patrick Leigh Fermor - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Textbooks by Patrick Leigh Fermor - Direct Textbook
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Loose as the Wind by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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 0719533481 - A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
0719533481 - A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The first volume (of three) describing Fermor's 18-month journey from Holland to Istanbul when he was a young man.
Book condition: Very good condition hardback in very good jacket.
www.biblio.com /isbn/0719533481.html   (94 words)

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