{"product_id":"9781473622494","title":"Dashing for the Post : The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Fermor, Patrick Leigh, Sisman, Adam, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 15\/06\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 496 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton General Division,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Letters, Travel writing\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781473622494\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are plenty of extraordinary stories: the hunt for Byron's slippers in one of the remotest regions of Greece; an ignominious dismissal from Somerset Maugham's Villa Mauresque; hiding behind a bush to dub Dirk Bogarde into Greek during the shooting of Ill Met by Moonlight, the film based on the story of General Kreipe's abduction; his extensive travels. Some letters contain glimpses of the great and the good, while others are included purely for the joy of the jokes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35021399130265,"sku":"9781473622494","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781473622494.jpg?v=1597576081","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781473622494","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}