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Leigh Fermor walked from London to Budapest when he was 18. Sometimes called England's greatest travel writer.
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Earnest, classical in form, contemplative and warm.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- ISIS Large Print, ISIS Large Print Books, Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Portuguese, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781444791945
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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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