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4 Extra Debut. 18-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor embarks on an epic walk across Europe. Biography of the travel writer and war hero. From November 2012.
Artemis Cooper's biography charts for the first time the extraordinary life story of the celebrated travel writer and war hero who was as renowned for his feats of derring-do as for his sumptuous prose.
Not long expelled, wearying of London and the bright lights, with dreams of becoming a writer, the 18 year old Patrick Leigh Fermor embarked in 1933 on his epic walk across Europe which was to form the basis for his award-winning and best-loved books, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.
Read by Samuel West
Abridged by Miranda Davies
Produced by Gemma Jenkins.
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