The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
by FERMOR, Patrick Leigh
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060112247
- ISBN 13
- 9780060112240
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style. After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania, and fought in Greece and Crete. He was awarded the DSO and OBE. He lived partly in Greece—in the house he designed with his wife, Joan, in an olive grove in the Mani—and partly in Worcestershire. He was knighted in 2004 for his services to literature and to British–Greek relations. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a doctoral student in geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written for The Guardian , The Believer , The Nation , Foreign Policy , and The New York Review of Books , among other publications.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 413740
- Title
- The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
- Author
- FERMOR, Patrick Leigh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060112247
- ISBN 13
- 9780060112240
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Travel/GeographicNon-fiction, Biography
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