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"In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick ('Paddy') Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him the better part of a year.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, RBA, John Murray
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781444790344
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Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as *A Time of Gifts* (1977).
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