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001 2013020807
003 DLC
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008 130606s2012 nyua b 001 0beng
010 $a 2013020807
020 $a9781590176740 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
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050 00 $aG154.F47$bC66 2012
082 00 $a910.4092$aB$223
084 $aBIO007000$aBIO023000$aBIO008000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aCooper, Artemis,$d1953-
245 10 $aPatrick Leigh Fermor :$ban adventure /$cArtemis Cooper.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$c2012.
300 $axiii, 448 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 401-430) and index.
520 $a"Patrick Leigh Fermor's enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally happy in caves or country houses, among shepherds or countesses. At the outbreak of war he left his lover, Princess Balasha Cantacuzene, in Romania and returned to England to enlist. Commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, he became one of the handful of Allied officers supporting the Cretan resistance to the German occupation. In 1944 he commanded the Anglo-Cretan team that abducted General Heinrich Kreipe and spirited him away to Egypt. A journey to the Caribbean, stays in monasteries, and explorations all over Greece provided the subjects for his first books. It was not until he and his wife had moved to southern Greece that he returned to his earliest walk. In these books, which took many years to write, he created a vision of a prewar Europe, which in its beauty and abundance has never been equaled. Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Leigh Fermor and his closest friends, and has had complete access to his archive. Her beautifully crafted biography portrays a man of extraordinary gifts--no one wore their learning so playfully nor inspired such passionate friendship"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aFermor, Patrick Leigh.
600 10 $aFermor, Patrick Leigh$xTravel$zDanube River Valley.
650 0 $aTravel writers$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aSoldiers$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.$2bisacsh