Patrick Leigh Fermor: 28 books

Book cover of Fra i boschi e l'acqua

Fra i boschi e l'acqua

Dal Medio Danubio alle Porte di Ferro

by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 12, 2015

Nel 1934 Patrick Leigh Fermor ha diciannove anni, e già da alcuni mesi si è lasciato alle spalle l'Inghilterra e un curriculum scolastico scellerato con il fermo proposito di raggiungere a piedi Costantinopoli, vivendo «come un pellegrino o un palmiere, un chierico vagante», dormendo nei fossi...
Book cover of Ill Met by Moonlight
by W. Stanley Moss, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

"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 Chronicle Ill Met By Moonlight is the gripping account of the audacious World War II abduction of a German...
Book cover of La route interrompue

La route interrompue

Des Portes de Fer au Mont Athos

by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: French
Release Date: July 29, 2014

**Découvrez le troisième tome de la trilogie Dans la nuit et le vent, une oeuvre encensée par la critique ! ** Un matin gris de décembre 1933, le jeune Patrick Leigh Fermor quitte l’Angleterre avec l’idée de traverser l’Europe à pied jusqu’à Constantinople. Une aventure qui...
Book cover of Le temps des offrandes

Le temps des offrandes

De la Corne de Hollande au moyen Danube

by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: French
Release Date: July 29, 2014

**Découvrez le premier tome de la trilogie Dans la nuit et le vent, une oeuvre encensée par la critique ! ** Un matin gris de décembre 1933, le jeune Patrick Leigh Fermor quitte l’Angleterre avec l’idée de traverser l’Europe à pied jusqu’à Constantinople. Une aventure qui sera...
Book cover of Entre fleuve et forêt

Entre fleuve et forêt

Du moyen Danube aux Portes de Fer

by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: French
Release Date: July 29, 2014

**Découvrez le second tome de la trilogie Dans la nuit et le vent, une oeuvre encensée par la critique ! ** Un matin gris de décembre 1933, le jeune Patrick Leigh Fermor quitte l’Angleterre avec l’idée de traverser l’Europe à pied jusqu’à Constantinople. Une aventure qui sera...
Book cover of La strada interrotta

La strada interrotta

Dalle Porte di Ferro al Monte Athos

by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 28, 2015

lla fine del 1933 il diciottenne Leigh Fermor lasciò l'Inghilterra con uno zaino, un vecchio cappotto militare, due libri di poesia, una sterlina alla settimana da ritirare al fermoposta e l'inflessibile proposito di raggiungere a piedi Costantinopoli. Grazie alla sua curiosità onnivora e alla precisione...
Book cover of A Time of Gifts

A Time of Gifts

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

by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011

At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian...
Book cover of Words of Mercury
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010

Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he developed his extraordinary...
Book cover of The Violins of Saint-Jacques
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

"Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to raise a genuine shiver--possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is a small timeless masterpiece."--Phoebe Lou Adams, The Atlantic Patrick Leigh Fermor’s...
Book cover of Roumeli
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010

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...
Book cover of Tempo di regali

Tempo di regali

Da Hoek Van Holland al Medio Danubio

by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 3, 2014

Munito solo di uno zaino da alpinista, un vecchio cappotto militare, scarponi chiodati, l’"Oxford Book of English Verse" e un passaporto nuovo di zecca che gli attribuisce la professione di studente (anziché, come avrebbe auspicato, quella di vagabondo), nel dicembre del 1933 Patrick...
Book cover of A Time to Keep Silence
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011

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...
Book cover of 時光的禮物:從荷蘭角港到多瑙河中游的青春浪遊
by 派翠克.弗莫(Patrick Leigh Fermor)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: October 17, 2017

◆獲《衛報》評選為百本最偉大「非文學」書單 宛如打開封存四十年的時空膠囊, 62歲的弗莫與18歲的自己,攜手重溫刻印青春的歐洲浪遊。 一個是無憂無慮的浪蕩青年,把遭遇儲存在記憶與日誌裡; 一個則是寫作老手,四十年後,將它變成了藝術…… 「這個人最大的魅力在於如此清新樂天, 他對比著古老歐陸難逃一死的威嚴, 這使得《時光的禮物》成為獨一無二的作品。 它博學,它怪異,它才華洋溢,卻又無比純真。」 ——珍.莫里斯 弗莫出生於一次世界大戰的隔年,出生沒多久,母親與姊姊便遠航去了印度因為父親在那裡擔任公務員,而他獨自被寄養在英國一戶普通人家裡,四年過去了,等母親姊姊回到英國,據他說他已經活脫像個粗狂的野小孩了;之後的成長歲月可謂是「無法無天」的小惡棍。 青年的弗莫仍舊狂傲不馴,學校的教育之於他是脫序、挫敗、不合常軌……終究,他的學生生涯是「玩完了」! 一九三三年,他十八歲,某日,某個「計畫」如浮光乍現:「我要改變場景,拋棄倫敦和英格蘭,像個流浪漢遠渡歐洲。」我要徒步旅行! 這趟從荷蘭角港到君士坦丁堡橫越歐洲的旅行,他浪漫地稱自己是個朝聖者、漂泊的學者;而,這場屬於放浪青春的徒步壯遊確確實實改變了他的人生風景。四十年後,宛如打開時光膠囊,六十二歲的弗莫重新回頭看十八歲的自己以及這場行旅,他決定與18歲的自己,攜手重溫刻印青春的這場歐洲浪遊:「我竭盡所能於這本書中再度體驗和重溫諸多細節,依序完成那些早期支離破碎的旅行回憶。」 本書的書寫形式是層層疊疊的。我們隨時會被撢落到另一個思路,另一個步調,另一種心情。彷彿我們永遠不會知道明晚將在哪兒過夜,是穀倉?城堡?陌生人家的客房?還是警局看守所?因此,我們永遠不會知道接續的會是怎樣的故事…… 【名家好評】 .十八歲時,派翠克.弗莫開始他的徒步旅行,從鹿特丹前往君士坦丁堡(今伊斯坦堡),全副重裝——宛如昔日中世紀的朝聖之旅——帶著棍棒、素描簿和背包,以及令人驚訝的拉丁文知識、合宜貪婪的好奇心,……坐下來展讀大師傑出的顛峰之作,感受一個中年男子以驚異的才華,置身於那個曾帶給人們光明的世界,重現青春年華無所不能的無邪與讚嘆。 ——Jeremy...
Book cover of 山與水之間:從多瑙河到喀爾巴阡山,跨越中歐大地的偉大壯遊
by 派翠克.弗莫(Patrick Leigh Fermor)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: December 6, 2018

湯瑪士.庫克旅行文學獎得獎作品 英國最偉大的旅行文學作家——派翠克.弗莫《歐洲三部曲》之二 一場十八歲青春浪遊, 弗莫從最西端的荷蘭角,興致勃勃前往君士坦丁堡。 在復活節的燭光、焚香與詩歌聲中,弗莫在匈牙利開啟了環繞在「山與水之間」的旅程。 在綠意漸濃的田野地帶,弗莫看見知足的莊稼人、恬靜的莊園與原始的地貌, 直至它穿越喀爾巴阡山,渡過多瑙河的峽谷,故事未完待續…… 一九三三年,弗莫突然產生一個念頭:「我要徒步旅行!」 在《時光的禮物》裡,弗莫從荷蘭角港出發, 沿途經過德國、奧地利、捷克斯洛伐克,他的終點是君士坦丁堡。 原先冬雪隆隆的森林與城鎮,隨著時序前進而逐漸改變,大地也開闊起來, 他來到了捷克斯洛伐克與匈牙利的邊界。 此時,到處聽得到鸛鳥辛勤築巢,杜鵑謳歌宣告了春天的來到。 本書就從弗莫跨越多瑙河、進入匈牙利開始, 他接受許多來自奧匈帝國舊貴族的款待,在布達佩斯等城市, 參加一場又一場彷彿永不歇息的派對;跨越大平原期間, 他也有幸居住在舒適的城堡或莊園裡,甚至讓人忘了他其實在徒步橫越歐洲的冒險中。 然而,弗莫也有完全孑然一身的時候。他從布達佩斯的近郊,騎著好馬「馬列克」, 穿梭匈牙利的農田,路途上他遇到一群慵懶又機靈的吉普賽人, 一面擔心自己的座騎會不會被「料理」,又忍不住探索吉普賽人的語言與起源之謎。 他還攀上喀爾巴阡山巔,在迷霧中閃躲陡峭的岩石,小心翼翼踩著布著薊草的碎石灘, 在整個下午失去方向感後,居然又「平安」回到前一晚接待他的牧羊人家。 他甚至露宿在阿達卡雷島的多瑙河畔,仰望著夜晚的天空,思索住在島上土耳其人的前世今生, 遙想中世紀鄂圖曼帝國、十字軍、匈牙利王國與波蘭王國在巴爾幹半島的戰鬥。 然而,隨著納粹在德國掌握政權,不管是匈牙利恬靜的田園景色、 羅馬尼亞山間伐木的猶太家族,或在城鎮的邊緣,坐擁廣大物業的貴族莊園, 他們都在不到十年的時間內,捲入破壞力強大的第二次世界大戰, 切膚入骨的苦痛和災難吞噬了大多數的人。 弗莫以一種紀念的心情,回顧這段壯闊的山水景致與樂天知命的人民。 這趟浪漫中甚至帶點奢侈的多瑙河中遊旅程,就在行船穿越鐵門峽後, 航向南方與終點——君士坦丁堡。 【好評推薦】 「比上一本書還要神奇……穿越匈牙利已經失去的外西凡尼亞(Transylvania),進入羅馬尼亞(Romania)…… 體驗旅程末尾那很快就會消失無蹤、一去不回的慵懶、高雅和崇英的生活方式。」 ——《文學評論》(Literary...
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