Patrick leigh fermor

When Leigh Fermor—a dashing autodidact and World War II hero, considered by some to be the greatest travel writer of the twentieth century—died in 2011, at ninety-six, he had been afflicted by a writer’s block that had lasted a quarter of a century. But it turns out that the third volume of his account of youthful travels on foot across Europe was, in a way, already complete.

Patrick Leigh Fermor, one of travel literature’s most colorful, beguiling pedestrians, famously decided to walk across Europe when he was 18. Why not?...

Recently discovered photos by Joan Leigh Fermor are a record of travels, marriage, friendships and an abiding love of her adopted homeland, Greece.

When Leigh Fermor—a dashing autodidact and World War II hero, considered by some to be the greatest travel writer of the twentieth century—died in 2011, at ninety-six, he had been afflicted by a writer’s block that had lasted a quarter of a century. But it turns out that the third volume of his account of youthful travels on foot across Europe was, in a way, already complete.

Writing to his friend Lady Diana Cooper in the spring of 1953, the celebrated travel writer and raconteur Patrick Leigh Fermor tells her: ‘Being alone with you is what I like best, a delight of which I can never tire.’

Travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor's magical life in Greece.

The love letters of Joan Leigh Fermor are shared in a new biography about her life. Her marriage to the travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor began 20 years after they first met in Cairo.

The qualities suited to the travel writer's trade have always been contradictory. The mental (and physical) robustness necessary for ambitious travel often excludes the sensitivity to record it, and vice versa. So there are travelers who write, and writers who travel—and they rarely converge in the same person. In Patrick Leigh Fermor, they do. The richness of his prose, his polymathic exuberance, and his cultural allusiveness render him less immediately accessible than some of his…

Traveller, warrior, lover, champion sponger - this improbable hero earned his legend

On the occasion of the publication of The Photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor: Artist and Lover, Ian Collins, who edited the collection together with Olivia Stewart, will give an illustrated presentation to be followed by a Q&A session.

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011)

In the catalogue to the exhibition Charmed Lives in Greece: Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor (at the British Museum until July 15), Michael Llewellyn-Smith writes that, in his later years, Patrick Leig…

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) in his home in Greece| andrewcusack.com

In an extract from Miguel Flores-Vianna's new book Haute Bohemians: Greece, the author visits legendary writer Patrick Leigh Fermor's house in the Mani

Patrick Leigh Fermor's life was the very definition of extraordinary.

I have been able to compile a photo montage for you of the renovated house, and its opening, from various sources including Facebook (Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Micheal Torrens/Facebook) as we…

The story rips along, as Leigh Fermor’s life did, with friends and lovers, books and journeys and parties, all milling and jostling around him in a noisy and joyous throng.