Author: M. Ellen ThongerPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Jock and I and the Hydra
Author: M. Ellen ThongerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Westminster Review
Author: The Book Monthly
Author: James MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Finding List
Author: The Treasury
Author: The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer
Author: The Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book
Author: Aberdeen-Angus Cattle SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Aberdeen-Angus cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
Author: Artemis CooperPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
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.
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