Words of Mercury [Audiobook] download free by Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Listen audiobook: Words of Mercury
- Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Release date: 2004/7/20
- Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780719561061
- Rating: 9.2 of 10
- Votes: 168
- Review by: Trevor Spalding
- Review rating: 8.19 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/16
- Duration: 3H35M52S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, WMA, Shorten, MPEG4, FLAC, OGG (compression ZIP, CBR, RZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M45S (5.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he developed his extraordinary sense of the continuity of history: a quality that deepens the colours of every place he writes about, from the peaks of the Pyrenees to the cell of a Trappist monastery. His experiences in wartime Crete sealed the deep affection he had already developed for Greece, a country whose character and customs he celebrates in two books, Mani and Roumeli, and where he has lived for over forty years. Whether he is drawing portraits in Vienna or sketching Byron's slippers in Missolonghi, the Leigh Fermor touch is unmistakable. Its infectious enthusiasm is driven by an insatiable curiosity and an omnivorous mind - all inspired by a passion for words and language that makes him one of the greatest prose writers of his generation.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: General, Travel Writing, Travel & Holiday Guides
- Download servers: Google Drive, FileHosting, 4Shared, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, KickAssTorents, Mediafire, FreakShare. Compressed in ZIP, CBR, RZ, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.08 USD
- Dimensions: 130x197x20mm
- Weight: 198g
- Printed by: John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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