Patrick Leigh Fermor

Mani

Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A glorious fusion of scholarship, history and imagination: mountainous Greece by the master traveller and writer who brought you A TIME OF GIFTS.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 238g
• ISBN-13: 9780719566912
• ISBN-10: 0719566916
• Artikelnr.: 14401691

Autorenporträt

After his famous walk across Europe - recounted in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water - Patrick Leigh Fermor lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania and fought in Greece and Crete - living disguised as a shepherd in the mountains for two years organising resistance activities. He was awarded the DSO and CBE, and a knighthood in the 2004 new Year Honours List.