Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the
Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A
Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during
these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and
where he developed his extraordinary sense of the continuity of
history: a quality that deepens the colours of every place he
writes about, from the peaks of the Pyrenees to the cell of a
Trappist monastery. His experiences in wartime Crete sealed the
deep affection he had already developed for Greece, a country whose
character and customs he celebrates in two books, Mani and Roumeli,
and where he has lived for over forty years. Whether he is drawing
portraits in Vienna or sketching Byron's slippers in Missolonghi,
the Leigh Fermor touch is unmistakable. Its infectious enthusiasm
is driven by an insatiable curiosity and an omnivorous mind - all
inspired by a passion for words and language that makes him one of
the greatest prose writers of his generation.
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