More dashing : further letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Fermor, Patrick Leigh, 1915-20112018
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'Dashing for the Post', the first selection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor (known to all as 'Paddy'), delighted critics and public alike. Here now is a further selection offering equal pleasure. Paddy's exuberant letters exude a zest characteristic of the man. They contain glimpses of the great and the good: a chance conversation with the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, when Paddy opens the wrong door, or a glass of ouzo under the pine trees with Harold Macmillan. They describe encounters with such varied figures as Jackie Onassis, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Oswald Mosley and Peter Mandelson; while also relating adventures with the humble: a 'pick-nick' with the stonemasons at Kardamyli, or a drunken celebration in the Cretan mountains with his old comrades from the resistance, most of them simple shepherds and goatherds.
Main title:
More dashing : further letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor / selected and edited by Adam Sisman.
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Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781408893661 (hbk)
Dewey class:
910.4092910.409 910.409
Language:
English
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BRN:
2713492