Patrick Leigh Fermor
An Adventure
New York : New York Review Books, [2013]
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 448 pages, 8 page of unnumbered plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
A biography of the adventurer, soldier, and author whose "enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. Before the year was out, he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, while his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally happy in caves or country houses, among shepherds or countesses"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects:
Fermor, Patrick Leigh.
Fermor, Patrick Leigh -- Travel -- Danube River Valley.
Travel writers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Fermor, Patrick Leigh.
Fermor, Patrick Leigh -- Travel -- Danube River Valley.
Travel writers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781590176740 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Fermor, Patrick | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Biography | In |
Originally published: Great Britain : John Murray (Publishers), 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-430) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-430) and index.