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More Dashing
- Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Engelsk Paperback
More Dashing
- Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Engelsk Paperback

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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 exude a zest for life and adventure characteristic of the man known to all as ‘Paddy’.

Paddy’s exuberant letters contain glimpses of the great and the good: a chance conversation with the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, when Paddy opens the wrong door, or a glass of ouzo under the pine trees with Harold Macmillan. They describe encounters with such varied figures as Jackie Onassis, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Oswald Mosley and Peter Mandelson, while also relating adventures with the humble: a ‘pick-nick’ with the stonemasons at Kardamyli, or a drunken celebration in the Cretan mountains with his old comrades from the Resistance, most of them simple shepherds and goatherds. Paddy was at ease in any company – unfailingly charming, boyish, gentle and fun.

Patrick Leigh Fermor has long been recognised as one of the greatest travel writers of his time. Nowhere is his restless curiosity and delight in language more dazzlingly displayed than in his letters, skilfully edited in this collection by Adam Sisman.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
480
ISBN-13:
9781408893692
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
140889369X
Udg. Dato:
3 okt 2019
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
3 okt 2019
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge