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"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"--… (más)
Artemis Cooper, en la exhaustiva y a la vez cálida biografía sobre Patrick Leigh Fermor, ha sabido captar perfectamente el espíritu apasionado y el magnético carácter del autor.Siguiendo la estela de Patrick, o Paddy como lo llamaban sus amigos, vivimos de primera mano el ambiente festivo del Londres de entreguerras, somos testigos del valor de los miembros de la resistencia contra los nazis, disfrutamos de la luminosidad de Grecia y recorremos, en fin, una Europa cargada de historia y habitada por gentes de toda condición, desde pastores nómadas hasta ministros griegos, o nobles húngaros y rumanos. Inglaterra, Francia, Italia, Holanda, Alemania, Austria, Checoslovaquia, Hungría, Rumanía, Bulgaria, Turquía, Albania y Grecia, pero también el Caribe, África, India… La insaciable sed viajera de este Lord Byron Contemporáneo permite desplegar una vuelta al mundo cargada de peligro y romanticismo. ( )
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I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in this respect may...be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childood.
Charles Dickens, 'David Copperfield', Chapter II
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For Adam and Nella live well
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The village of Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire was an unlikely setting for paradise, but for Patrick Leigh Fermor the years he spent there as a small child were among the happiest in his life.
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'Love to all and kindness to all friends,' he wrote, 'and thank you all for a life of great happiness'.
"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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