Volume 55, Number 1 · January 17, 2008
A Prince of the Road
By Colin Thubron
A Time to Keep Silence
by Patrick Leigh Fermor, with an introduction by Karen Armstrong
New York Review Books, 96 pp., $12.95 (paper)
OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
by Patrick Leigh Fermor, with an introduction by Michael Gorra
New York Review Books, 358 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
by Patrick Leigh Fermor, with an introduction by Patricia Storace
New York Review Books,260 pp., $14.95 (paper)
A Time of Gifts
by Patrick Leigh Fermor, with an introduction by Jan Morris
New York Review Books, 321 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Between the Woods and the Water
by Patrick Leigh Fermor, with an introduction by Jan Morris
New York Review Books, 264 pp., $15.95 (paper)
To suggest that Patrick Leigh Fermor is the greatest travel writer alive is to omit a great deal. In Britain and Greece he is a near legend, celebrated not only for his books but for his wartime exploits as a guerrilla leader in occupied Crete, where his abduction of a German general has passed into folklore. He is, perhaps, the last of a breed of writer-travelers whose reputation has an aura of genuine action and courage.
Review, 3641 words
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