Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure [Kindle Edition] Author: Artemis Cooper | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BRUPIAO | Format: PDF, EPUB
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You can download Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure Epub Free for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link Patrick Leigh Fermor’s enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally happy in caves or country houses, among shepherds or countesses.
At the outbreak of war he left his lover, Princess Balasha Cantacuzene, in Romania and returned to England to enlist. Commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, he became one of the handful of Allied officers supporting the Cretan resistance to the German occupation. In 1944 he commanded the Anglo-Cretan team that abducted General Heinrich Kreipe and spirited him away to Egypt.
A journey to the Caribbean, stays in monasteries, and explorations all over Greece provided the subjects for his first books. It was not until he and his wife had moved to southern Greece that he returned to his earliest walk. In these books, which took many years to write, he created a vision of a prewar Europe, which in its beauty and abundance has never been equaled.
Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Leigh Fermor and his closest friends, and has had complete access to his archive. Her beautifully crafted biography portrays a man of extraordinary gifts—no one wore their learning so playfully nor inspired such passionate friendship. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure Epub Free
- File Size: 9720 KB
- Print Length: 480 pages
- Publisher: New York Review Books (October 15, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BRUPIAO
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This is a most well researched biography of a fascinating man and writer who lived and wrote in many parts of the world. Many years were spent in Greece where PLF lived mainly in the Mani region of the Peloponnese. Hiking across much of Europe in the early thirties, on a shoe-string budget, bunking with aristocrats and serfs is a story well covered that should give incentives to the young of today. The detailed descriptions of his life in the SOE in Cairo and in Crete is of great interest to servicemen and anyone connected to the WW2 resistance movement in Crete. The reality of the capture on General Kreipe becomes more clear than it was in the book and film, 'Ill Met by Moonlight' that featured Dirk Bogarde as PLF. A book that deserves to be reread many times.
By Paul Gebhard
I found this book to be a relentless accumulation of gossip about PLF and his rich and famous friends. Lots of juicy gossip. Little analysis, little attempt to understand a complex and ultimately sad man. No attempt to present his normal daily life or his relationships with the non-rich and famous. A very long discussion of the much-discussed German-general-kidnapping.
Artemis Cooper has known PLF all her life, her husband made much use of his information in a fine history of the Cretan war. Her family has known Fermor. She has had unparalleled access to information which she has simply used, at best, for titillation.
I am a long-time admirer of PLF. He was a man of courage, complex, highly flawed, highly gifted. He deserves much better.
Cooper wrote an "official" biography. Perhaps a better, more intelligent writer can write a real biography.
My review is here:[...]
By D. G. Wright
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