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Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his... -
Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41This 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... -
More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781408893692
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor The first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics... -
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $16.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171653Author Patrick Leigh FermorFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Im -
Roumeli Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566929
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Patrick 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... -
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719568572
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house... -
Words of Mercury Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719561061
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Patrick 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... -
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41From 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... -
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure Artemis Cooper 9780719565496
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Patrick 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... -
The Violins of Saint-Jacques Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719555299
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano and, in time, she... -
Three Letters from the Andes Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566851
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.41In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli... -
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Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719561061 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64Patrick 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... -
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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper 9780719565496 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.22Patrick 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... -
A Time of Gifts: A John Murray Journey Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781529369526
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41INTRODUCED 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... -
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $18.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177792Author Patrick Leigh FermorFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Im -
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566844
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious... -
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781444796605
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41A 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'... -
Patrick Leigh Fermor: Noble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania by Michael O'Sullivan 9786155225642
RRP: $30.75Booksplease Price: $29.23This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous pedestrian excursion from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This S.O.E. officer walked into Hungary as a youth... -
The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis by Wes Davis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging... -
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781399836852
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41WITH A FOREWORD BY JAN MORRIS'A treasure chest' Spectator'A masterpiece' William Dalrymple, Financial TimesIn 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long... -
Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn by Nick Hunt
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41In 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... -
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A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566950 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $4.60In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting... -
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566967
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.83The 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... -
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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 9780719566967 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.80The 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... -
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins 9780300255294
Booksplease Price: $41.85Uplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artist Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton... -
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922-2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a "kind of Arcadian". His early art... -
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Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor by Simon Fenwick 9781509848690 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.36Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now Simon Fenwick, the first archivist to see the Leigh Fermor papers,... -
Blue River, Black Sea by Andrew Eames
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania... -
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07An electrifying narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, from the bestselling author of The Popes and Sicily: A Short HistoryThe Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most... -
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher David McClay 9781473662704
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family business over seven generations. Intended both to entertain and inspire, Dear Mr Murray is a collection... -
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie 9781760879198
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.52We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops are rushed... -
At Home In The World: A Life With J D Salinger by Joyce Maynard 9781862300415
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In 1972, Joyce Maynard, an undergraduate at Yale, wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine called 'An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life'. Among the hundreds of letters she received as a... -
Arrow in the Blue by Arthur Koestler
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance... -
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Selected Poetry by Isabel Quigly 9780140585049 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.91SHELLEY'S WORK HAS BEEN CRITICIZED FOR ITS DIDACTICISM AND UNDISCIPLINED EMOTIONALISM. BUT ESSENTIALLY HE WAS A POET OF IDEAS AND IN HIS SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND ORIGINAL HUMAN PERFECTION, SHELLEY WAS... -
Being Indian: Inside the Real India by Pavan Varma 9780099486824
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In the 21st century every sixth human being will be Indian. India is very close to becoming the second largest consumer market in the world, with a buying middle class numbering over half a billion... -
To the Lake: A Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she... -
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great... -
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Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron 9780099437222 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.95A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great... -
Notes From the Languedoc by Rupert Wright 9780091905637
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.05It is easy to get to the Languedoc. Follow the Rhone south through France, then once you hit the Mediterranean coast, turn right. The mystery is that for generations, people have been getting to the... -
For A Pagan Song by Jonny Bealby 9780099436737
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71For a Pagan Song tells the story of how Jonny Bealby follows in the footsteps of his two heroes from literature, Kipling and Dravot, travelling across remote parts of India and Pakistan and into...