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Life by the scenic route: Max Hastings reviews ‘Words of Mercury’
First publushed in the Daily Telegraph 12 Oct 2003 Paddy Leigh Fermor has lived one of the great picaresque lives of the 20th century. He left a minor public school under heavy clouds with no money and...
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The development of steel-drum music in Trinidad – when did Paddy visit?
I wonder if anyone can help? Andrew Booker Rennie has posted a question on the Welcome page as follows. I am sure he would be grateful for any assistance. Please reply by adding a comment below or...
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Copy of Traveller’s Tree sold for £1,700 at James Bond book auction
A selection of highly sought after first editions of Ian Fleming’s legendary James Bond books were sold by Gloucestershire auctioneers Dominic Winter at a sale on 16 December 2010. Casino Royale, the...
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Old days, new dawn in the Caribbean
We get to read very little about Paddy’s first book The Traveller’s Tree which was published in 1950. This is a fairly comprehensive review by Katherine Powers. First published in the Boston Globe 6...
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The Times Literary Supplement: Patrick Leigh Fermor
First published in The Times Literary Supplement, 6 July 2011 There was a time in the early 1950s when, upon arrival in the TLS office of a book about cannibalism or Voodoo, the editor would drop it in...
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The Traveller’s Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
Before he was a writer, Patrick Leigh Fermor was merely a war hero, having earned his first fame from deep-cover exploits with the Greek Resistance. During World War II he hid in the rugged mountains...
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After The Traveller’s Tree … what was the next stop?
I have received a very interesting email from Bo Nensén in Sweden. He recounts a story from the work of the prolific Swedish travel writer Håkan Mörne, about Joan and Paddy travelling onwards to...
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The next stop After The Traveller’s Tree was ….
…. an Indian hut in El Castillo (Nicaragua?) where Paddy sang to the accompaniment of an Indian playing his guitar. What on earth did he sing? I am grateful to Phyllis Willis for being a better mole...
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Literary and Historical References – The Traveller’s Tree
The first of a series which presents work done by members of the Royal Geographical Society which analyses chapter by chapter literary and historical references from some of Paddy’s key work. This was...
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The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo: Meeting Patrick...
Ryan Eyre lives in Seattle, and took a journey to Kardamyli to meet Paddy in 2009. He has written this article for the Journal of the Book Club of Washington, and has asked to publish it here as well....
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Bringing Bond to book
We continue our series of articles looking at the work of Ian Fleming who was a friend of Paddy. Fleming was influenced by Paddy’s exploits and he used the Traveller’s Tree in particular as a source...
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The Traveller’s Tree: The Travel Writing of Patrick Leigh Fermor
William Dalrymple introduces Artemis Cooper discussing Paddy’s writing including his first major work, The Traveller’s Tree, at the Jaipur Literature Festival
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