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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor DSO OBE (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 , [2] and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). [3]
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s ‘fountain’ has often been seen as representative of culture and conviviality, but perhaps the fountain was more specific, and he was thinking of Horace, his insight, his poetry and that Ode in particular.
Jun 10, 2011 · A tribute to the travel writer and WWII hero who died in 2011. Learn about his legendary exploits, his books and his love for Greece.
Jun 10, 2011 · Patrick Leigh Fermor, who has died aged 96, was an intrepid traveller, a heroic soldier and a writer with a unique prose style. His books, most of which were autobiographical, made surprisingly scant mention of his military exploits, drawing instead on remarkable geographical and scholarly explorations.
Sep 29, 2011 · When Patrick Leigh Fermor died in June at the age of ninety-six, it seemed as if an era had come to an end. He was the last of a generation of warrior–travel writers that included the Arabian explorer Wilfred Thesiger, the controversial mystic Laurens van der Post, and the indefatigable Norman Lewis of Naples '44.
Jun 27, 2011 · First published in the Economist, Jun 16th 2011. ONE evening in the spring of 1934 19-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor, making his way on foot from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, found himself taking tea under flowering horse-chestnut trees at the kastely of Korosladany, in Hungary.
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Oct 10, 2014 · A new account of the kidnap of a German general in WW2 from occupied Crete sheds light on one of the 20th Century's most interesting men. "One man in his time plays many parts," wrote Shakespeare...
