Patrick Leigh Fermor

By Ileana von Hirsch, June 11th 2011

Patrick Leigh Fermor died on June 10th – author of three of my favorite books – A Time of Gifts, describing his journey on foot as a young man from London to Istanbul, though the book stops at the Hungarian border – Roumeli; an exploration through travels in Northern Greece of the sense of Greekness that developed after the fall of Byzantium, and Mani; which deals with the sense of Greekness in the southern Greek heartlands. Lovely books and  a lovely man whose home in the village of Kardamyli  became a sort of pilgrmage destination for his admirers. If you haven’t already read his books, I have added shortcuts to them on this post and thoroughly recommend them.

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Ileana von Hirsch

Ileana lives in London, is married to a Bavarian, and comes from an old shipping family from the Greek island of Ithaca. ileana@fivestargreece.com

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