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55 produkter
Mani
Häftad, 2004
158 kr
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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 …
Between the Woods and the Water
On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
Häftad, 2004
159 kr
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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 …
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
Häftad, 2005
255 kr
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Time of Gifts
A John Murray Journey
Häftad, 2021
165 kr
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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 …
Abducting a General
The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete
Häftad, 2015
156 kr
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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 …
Broken Road
From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Häftad, 2014
158 kr
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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 …
Roumeli
Häftad, 2004
158 kr
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Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a …
Time to Keep Silence
Häftad, 2004
147 kr
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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, …
Time of Gifts
On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
Häftad, 2026
158 kr
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WITH A FOREWORD BY JAN MORRIS'A treasure chest' Spectator'A masterpiece' William Dalrymple, Financial TimesIn 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 A Time of Gifts, the …
Die unterbrochene Reise
Av Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
257 kr
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Violins of Saint-Jacques
Häftad, 2004
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
144 kr
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On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano and, in time, she shares the story of her youth there in the early twentieth century. Set in the tropical luxury of …
Words of Mercury
Häftad, 2004
158 kr
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Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he developed his extraordinary …
Traveller's Tree
A Journey through the Caribbean Islands
Häftad, 2005
170 kr
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In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the West Indies by steamer, …
Three Letters from the Andes
Häftad, 2005
158 kr
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In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa and finally back to Lima.The expedition was led by a writer and …
In Tearing Haste
Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Av Patrick Leigh Fermor, Deborah Devonshire
Häftad, 2009
167 kr
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In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but …
More Dashing
Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
E-bok, 2018
143 kr
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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, More Dashing , presents a further selection of letters that …
More Dashing
Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Häftad, 2019
141 kr
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The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh FermorThe first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume, More Dashing, presents a further selection of letters that exude a …
In Tearing Haste
Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Av Deborah Devonshire, Patrick Leigh Fermor
E-bok, 2010
44 kr
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In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires'' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but …
Abducting a General
The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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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 …
Dashing for the Post
The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Av Patrick Leigh Fermor, Adam Sisman
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy …
Dashing for the Post
The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Av Patrick Leigh Fermor, Adam Sisman
Häftad, 2017
168 kr
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A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy …
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Av Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron
Häftad, 2015
251 kr
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Time of Gifts
On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
E-bok, 2010
61 kr
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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 …
Between the Woods and the Water
On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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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, …
Mani
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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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 …
Roumeli
E-bok, 2010
43 kr
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Patrick Leigh Fermor''s Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a …
Violins of Saint-Jacques
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano, and, in time, she shares the story of her youth there in the early twentieth century. Set in the tropical luxury of …
Traveller's Tree
A Journey through the Caribbean Islands
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller''s Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the West Indies by steamer, …
