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Patrick Leigh Fermor

British author, scholar and soldier....

01/02/1915 - 10/07/2011

Patrick Leigh Fermor biography and information

  • Leigh Fermor's father, Sir Lewis, was a distinguished geologist. Shortly after Patrick was born, his mother left to join his father in India, leaving him behind with another family.

  • He was later expelled from The King's School, Canterbury on the pretext that he was caught holding hands with a local greengrocer's daughter.

  • He continued educating himself, reading texts on Greek, Latin, Shakespeare and History with the intention of entering the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

  • He soon decided, however, at just 18, to walk the length of Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. Leigh Fermor set off on 8 December 1933, when Hitler had recently come to power in Germany, with a few clothes, the Oxford Book of English Verse and a volume of Horace's Odes .
  • He slept in barns and shepherds' huts, but also in the country houses of Central Europe with the landed gentry and aristocracy.

  • In February 2004, he accepted the knighthood which he had declined in 1991; in February 2007, the Greek government made him Commander of the Order of the Phoenix.

  • At the same time, it emerged that, for the first time, he had decided to work using a typewriter - having written all his books long-hand until then.

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Eric Newby, Laurens van der Post and Edward Enfield.

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A Time of Gifts
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The Broken Road
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Mani
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Roumeli
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More Dashing
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Words of Mercury
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Words of Mercury
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A Time of Gifts
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In Tearing Haste
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In Tearing Haste
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The Broken Road
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My Book of the Year... Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

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