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Click here for a fantastic (and accurate) review of "Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure" by Artemis Cooper from the Daily Telegraph and written by Jan Morris
He was a good, kind sort of hero anyway, and his life did end on a gentler note, spent largely with his beloved Joan in the house they had built beside the sea in the southern Peloponnese. When she died he divided his time, as was only proper, between Greece and England, and gradually his splendid body failed him. He lost part of his sight, part of his hearing, and in his 96th year he went to his rest beside his wife in Worcestershire.
He is justly commemorated in this magnificent biography, and will surely be remembered for ever as one of the very best of men.
I'm over halfway through now and thoroughly enjoying it - as Jan Morris suggests in her review, this marvellous book is less a mere life story of and more of an evocation.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe.
This review...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
...by Bruce give a good overview....
Unable to find an academic niche or other occupation suitable to his talents and temperament, he early became a writer and, with an interruption for a heroic military career during World War II, was never anything else. But that bare description fails to capture his frenetic lifestyle, his endless curiosity, his social extroversion, and his breathless rush through a life of nearly a century. “The greatest blessing a guest can bring to his host is the right kind of curiosity, and it bubbled out of Paddy like a natural spring.”