Three Letters from the Andes
$26.73
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2005
Summary
In 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 on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa and finally back to Lima.
The expedition was led by a writer and poet and the party included a Swiss international skier and jeweller, a social anthropologist from Provence and a Nottinghamshire farming squire - all seasoned mountaineers. The other two pa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719566851 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719566851 |
| Author: | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2005 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 10mm |
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Patrick Leigh Fermor is an exquisite among travel writers … Having a polished sense of poetry and a bright sense of humour, he outshines Lawrence … This is a delicious book - Sunday Telegraph
Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples … to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better - Geographical MagazineJohn Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor’s main books … But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world? - Geographical MagazineEnthralling and elegant prose … There could be no better travelling companion than Patrick Leigh Fermor - Daily MailLeigh Fermor’s use of English is as exhilarating as the stark beauty of the landscape he describes… there is no one so adept at evoking the melancholy of raw wilderness - Daily TelegraphHis grand style perfectly captures the country’s generous people and magnificent landscape … Leigh Fermor has an individual and attractive voice, his tales are charming and his mind open - Financial TimesHe makes exotic and entertaining friends wherever he goes, has read everything, been everywhere, known everyone and writes like a dream - The TimesAbout The Author
Patrick Leigh Fermor
After his famous walk across Europe - recounted in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water - Patrick Leigh Fermor lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania and fought in Greece and Crete - living disguised as a shepherd in the mountains for two years organising resistance activities. He was awarded the DSO and CBE, and a knighthood in the 2004 new Year Honours List. His writing career, spanning over fifty years, includes six other titles available in John Murray paperback. He lives in Greece, in a house he designed and built.
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