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  • A Time to Keep Silence

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Abducting a General

    The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping of General Kriepe, has been published.One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Between the Woods and the Water

    On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Broken Road

    From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III?' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mani

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky central prong of the Peleponnese at the southernmost point in Europe.Bad ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Walking the Woods and the Water

    In Patrick Leigh Fermor's Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn

    by Nick Hunt ...
    In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar . The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Road are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct, landscapes ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Ill Met by Moonlight

    by W. Stanley Moss, Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    "This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant, racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once the first page is read." —San Francisco ChronicleIll Met By Moonlight is the gripping account of the audacious World War II abduction of a German general from the island of Crete. British special forces officers W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh Fermor, together with a ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Vorerkundung Und Prognose Der Basistunnels Am Gotthard Und Am Lotschberg

    Edited by U. Briegal, Simon Low, B. Oddsson, L. Schlickenrieder, Roland Wyss ...
    Der vorliegende Band fasst den Kenntnisstand per Anfang 1999 zusammen und präsentiert zum ersten Mal in einer umfassenden Art und Weise die grosse Anzahl neuer Daten der Vorerkundung der Gotthard- und Lötschberg-Basistunnels sowie die Hochschulen in den letzten Jahren erarbeiteten projektrelevanten geologischen und felsmechanischen Grundlagen. ... Read more

    $322.92 CAD

  • The Traveller's Tree

    A Journey Through the Carribean Islands

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree, Leigh Fermor’s first book, gives us his own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Roumeli

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a pair of Byron's slippers.Roumeli is not on modern maps: it is the ancient name for the lands from the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Time of Gifts

    On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.'In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Patrick Leigh Fermor

    An Adventure

    by Artemis Cooper ...
    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 Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated polymath, a lover of Greece and the best company in the world.Artemis Cooper has drawn on years ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD