The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.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. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III?' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not...

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania.The trip was an exploration of a continent which was already showin...

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 magic.'In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote ...

Patrick Leigh Fermor è la massima approssimazione all’archetipo del viaggiatore di cui disponga il nostro mondo. Lo ha dimostrato fin dal 1933, quando, con un leggero zaino, si è lanciato in una traversata a piedi dell’Europa, da Londra a Istanbul, che ancora oggi non ha finito di raccontare. Ma il suo libro esemplare è dedicato a un luogo, il Mani – ultima propaggine del Peloponneso, magnifica e strana, che si distacca dal resto della Grecia per la sua natura aspra e allucinatoria e per l...

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 Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky central prong of the Peleponnese at the southernmost point in Europe.Bad communications only heightening the remoteness, this Greece - south of ancient Sparta ...

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...

Il nome Rumelia non compare sulle mappe, e lo cerchereste invano sui vostri GPS: indica una regione che corrisponde grosso modo a quella parte della Grecia che va dal Bosforo all’Adriatico e dalla Macedonia al golfo di Corinto. Quando Patrick Leigh Fermor la esplora, negli anni Cinquanta, un banchetto nuziale dei nomadi della Tracia era ancora misterioso come una cerimonia inuit, e sì, i monasteri delle Meteore spuntavano dalle nuvole «come avamposti in una landa polare». Poi certo è arriv...

Munito solo di uno zaino da alpinista, un vecchio cappotto militare, scarponi chiodati, l’"Oxford Book of English Verse" e un passaporto nuovo di zecca che gli attribuisce la professione di studente (anziché, come avrebbe auspicato, quella di vagabondo), nel dicembre del 1933 Patrick Leigh Fermor abbandona Londra e una carriera scolastica sciagurata e ribalda. Ha appena diciotto anni, vaghe ambizioni letterarie, ma un progetto nitido e grandioso: attraversare l’Europa a piedi come un palmi...

Nel 1934 Patrick Leigh Fermor ha diciannove anni, e già da alcuni mesi si è lasciato alle spalle l'Inghilterra e un curriculum scolastico scellerato con il fermo proposito di raggiungere a piedi Costantinopoli, vivendo «come un pellegrino o un palmiere, un chierico vagante», dormendo nei fossi e nei pagliai e familiarizzando solo con i suoi simili. "Fra i boschi e l'acqua" è il racconto della seconda parte di quel viaggio, e prende avvio dal punto esatto in cui era terminato "Tempo di rega...

From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of 'supernatural windfall' which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records.

A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping of General Kriepe, has been published.One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German...

ÀUn voyage spirituel et littéraire au cœur de la vie monastiqueDans cet ouvrage maintes fois réédité, Patrick Leigh Fermor se penche sur le monachisme chrétien, d’abord chez les bénédictins de l’abbaye de Saint-Wandrille, dans le Pays de Caux, chez qui il fit de nombreuses retraites à partir de 1948. Puis il nous parle de Solesmes, dans la Sarthe, et des cisterciens de la Grande Trappe, dans l’Orne. Enfin, un dernier chapitre est dévolu aux origines du monachisme o...