Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor at home in Kalamitsi.

. He had adventures, captured a German officer, killed a Greek man by not knowing his gun was loaded, had an affair with a Balkan princess and smoked, drank and womanised all to excess. There is also his cavalier attitude to money. Life for Leigh Fermor continued in much the same way after the war.

“— Library Journal“Artemis Cooper has done a brilliant job of piecing together the shards of evidence about this glamorous but elusive writer, who seemed not to be able to resist mixing fact and fiction in his own life story.” —John Eliot Gardiner, The Wall Street Journal“A fondly admiring account of the English wayfarer captures his enormously infectious spirit…A solid biography that should introduce more readers to Leigh Fermor’s work.” —Kirkus Reviews“In her arresting biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, an ever-curious travel writer known for experiencing locales at ground- level, Cooper, studies a man determined to see the world firsthand, with interviews from family and friends, rare letters, and diaries….Nostalgic and expertly written, Cooper fleshes out Fermor, a man who boldly traveled a world on the edge of catastrophe, which he explained in his writing to a faithful readership.” —Publishers WeeklyOne of The Independent’s “50 Best Winter Reads” Short-listed for the inaugural Waterstones “Book of the Year”   “Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died last year [2011] at the age of 96, was one of the travel-writing greats, a war hero who related his journeys as a young man through Europe in classics such as A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.

He was later expelled from The King's School, Canterbury after he was caught holding hands with a greengrocer's daughter. But there was a dark side: the accidental killing by Paddy, mishandling a loaded gun, of his comrade in arms in the Cretan resistance, Yanni Tsangarakis. As you can see it has a distinctly different cover with the famous view of the house at Kardamyli, whilst still showing our hero at the peak of his powers. They don't make 'em like Paddy anymore. She is not uncritical, and is aware of Leigh Fermor’s frailties: his insensitivities and infidelities. It puts his life into perspective and shows what a relatively short transitionary moment the travel was. He was in The Grange from 1929 to 1931. All this is borne out in this admiring biography by Artemis Cooper, granddaughter of Lady Diana Cooper, who knew ‘Paddy’ since her childhood. This work will be most enjoyed and appreciated by those readers who are familiar with “Paddy” and who have read some of his works.

Then he turned his back on all that to tramp diagonally across Europe and write about its gypsies, remote towns, forgotten villages and colourful peasant customs – indulging his insatiable curiosity for foreign languages, history and architecture. Visit the Book of the Week webpage here to find out more. Powered by Chrislands. Patrick Leigh Fermor on horseback at Baleni, Moldavia, ‘He is justly commemorated in this magnificent biography, and will surely be remembered for ever as one of the best of men.’. In second place is Artemis Cooper’s biography of the war hero and travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. Fermor is a seriously challenging subject for any biographer, perhaps more so for Cooper, who knew him from a very early age. First published in the Times Literary Supplement 14 November 2012.

Naughtie grabbed some time with Nick Hunt who walked Paddy’s route from Hook of Holland to Constantinople just this year. Fed up with Jamie Oliver? The excitement of the youthful walk and the Cretan WW2 adventures was captivating. A very interesting life, but the book could have used a good editor.

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