Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
John Murray (Hachette Australia), $49.99 hb, 464 pp, 9780719554490
Biography
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
by Kári Gíslason •
However much we may locate the joy of travel in the sudden revelations of a new experience, one of its most enduring pleasures lies in collecting for later. For the collector–traveller, journeys abroad offer an escape from the familiar and, as importantly, a chance to assemble a different kind of education from the one we receive at home, a living textbook shaped by first-hand encounters and the possibility and urgency of adventure.
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