Purchase Patrick Leigh Fermor's book A Time of Gifts And Colin Thubron drops in to say a few words about Paddy.Īll that is coming up in the interview, but I also want to hear from you - Have you read Patrick Leigh Fermor’s work? What do you find so appealing about it? Please leave a comment below. I also speak with Nick Hunt again, who also is the series editor of John Murray’s new imprint "Journeys," about A Time of Gifts and the other books they’re re-publishing this month. Artemis wrote a monumental biography about Paddy called Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, which is worth a read. Joining me today is Artemis Cooper, who speaks about about Patrick Leigh Fermor and his work. June marked the 10-year anniversary of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s passing, and next month John Murray Press is re-publishing his best-known book A Time of Gifts under a new imprint called “Journeys.” He was awarded the DSO and CBE, and a knighthood in the 2004 New Year Honours List. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania and fought in Greece and Crete – living disguised as a shepherd in the mountains for two years organising resistance activities. His powers of recollection have astonishing sweep and verve, and the scope is majestic.Īfter his walk across Europe, Patrick Leigh Fermor lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago.
It is a book of compelling glimpses – not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable burgomasters who welcomed him, and that world’s grandeurs and courtesies. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot – from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul (or Constantinople, as he insisted on calling it).
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