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September, 1881july 14, 1965, was a romanian poet, novelist, mathematician, historian, and diplomat, and the. Books by patrick leigh fermor author of a time of gifts. The broken road is the longawaited account of the final leg of his youthful adventure that leigh fermor promised but was unable to finish before his death in 2011. Sir patrick michael leigh fermor, dso, obe 11 february 1915 10 june 2011, also known as paddy fermor, was a british author, scholar, soldier and polyglot who played a prominent role behind the lines in the cretan resistance during the second world war. The book follows on from patrick leigh fermor s other two classic travel and cultural history books in this sequence, published under the titles of a time of gifts and between the woods and the. Mani, patrick leigh fermor, john murray, 1958, first edition first impression often lauded as the greatest travel writer of the twentieth century, patrick leigh fermor s mani chronicles leigh fermor s travels around the mani peninsula in southern mainland greece.
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