Words of Mercury - Couverture rigide

Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719561051 ISBN 13 : 9780719561054

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Artemis Cooper is the author of Cairo in the War 1939--1945 and other highly acclaimed books. She is now preparing, with Antony Beevor, the authorised biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor. She lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719561051
• ISBN 13: 9780719561054
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Cooper Artemis
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible