Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
English | October 6, 2016 | ASIN: B01C372762, ISBN: 1473622492 | 496 pages | AZW3 | 2.27 MB
English | October 6, 2016 | ASIN: B01C372762, ISBN: 1473622492 | 496 pages | AZW3 | 2.27 MB
Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend.
The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy's twenty-fifth birthday, the last when he was ninety-four. His correspondents include Deborah Devonshire, Ann Fleming, Nancy Mitford, Lawrence Durrell, Diana Cooper and his lifelong companion, Joan Rayner; he wrote his first letter to her in his cell at the monastery Saint Wandrille, the setting for his reflections on monastic life in A Time to Keep Silence. His letters exhibit many of his most engaging characteristics: his zest for life, his unending curiosity, his lyrical descriptive powers, his love of language, his exuberance and his tendency to get into scrapes - particularly when drinking and, quite separately, driving.
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