Located at the heart of Europe's southernmost promontory, the Mani is one of the wildest, most isolated regions in Greece. In this fascinating book, Fermor bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to unfurl "the...

The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor The first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume,...

The Violins of Saint-Jacques von Fermor, Patrick Leigh

INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable...

The great travel classic, first published in 1977 and recounting an epic journey of nearly 50 years before. von Fermor, Patrick Leigh

"Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece" ist ein faszinierendes Reisebuch von Patrick Leigh Fermor, das seine Erlebnisse und Beobachtungen während seiner Reisen durch den nördlichen Teil Griechenlands schildert. Das Buch bietet einen tiefen...

Sechs Freunde brechen 1971 zu einer Kletterexpedition in die Anden auf. Ihr Abenteuer führt sie von Cusco nach Urubamba, weiter nach Puno und Juli zum Titicacasee, wieder hinunter nach Arequipa und zurück nach Lima.Die Reisegruppe...

A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople....

Mit einem Gefühl wie Odysseus machte sich im Dezember 1933 der Autor auf einen Weg zu Fuss durch Europa. In Hoek van Holland beginnt diese Reise mit dem Ziel Konstantinopel. In «Die Zeit der Gaben» beschreibt Fermor Jahrzehnte später mit...

This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering...

A wonderful insight into the calm and contemplative world of the monastery, written by the popular travel writer. von Fermor, Patrick Leigh

The great travel classic that was first published in 1977. Recounts a journey 50 years before, travelling from Holland to Constantinople on foot. von Fermor, Patrick Leigh