Dashing for the post : the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Label

Dashing for the post : the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

Title remainder

the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

Statement of responsibility

selected and edited by Adam Sisman

Creator

• Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Contributor

• Sisman, Adam

Subject

• Fermor, Patrick Leigh -- Correspondence
• Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
• Travel and Tourism
• Travel writers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence

Genre

• Correspondence

Language

eng

Summary

Patrick Leigh Fermor was hailed as the greatest travel writer of his generation. His letters are often entertaining and sometimes instructive. They exhibit many of his most endearing characteristics: his zest for life, his unending curiosity, his keen sense of place, his lyrical descriptive powers, his love of words, his fluency in a remarkable range of languages, his lack of self-importance, his boyish exuberance, and his sense of fun. They draw on his wide reading, and his unflagging enthusiasm for learning

Member of

• Correspondence., Selections

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 910.4'092
• 910.4'092
• 910.4092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography