[5] PLF is referring to Macbeth; he means Duncan's bedside, where Macduff discovers that the King has been murdered. [6] Reuel Wilson (b. 1938), son of the novelist Mary McCarthy and her second husband, Edmund Wilson.
The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. Handsome, spirited, and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation.
In these books, which took many years to write, he created a vision of a prewar Europe, which in its beauty and abundance has never been equaled.
In these books, which took many years to write, he created a vision of a prewar Europe, which in its beauty and abundance has never been equaled.
This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous excursion on foot from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in the 1930s.
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of ...