Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor [Audiobook] download free by Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Listen audiobook: Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Release date: 2016/12/15
- Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781473622463
- Rating: 8.56 of 10
- Votes: 452
- Review by: Amara Haggard
- Review rating: 8.07 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/5
- Duration: 6H11M28S in 256 kbps (99.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MPEG4, ATRAC, WMA, MP3, FLAC, Musepack (compression ZIP, TBZ2, Z, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 496
- Includes a PDF summary of 39 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M22S (7.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy's twenty-fifth birthday, the last when he was ninety-four. His correspondents include Deborah Devonshire, Ann Fleming, Nancy Mitford, Lawrence Durrell, Diana Cooper and his lifelong companion, Joan Rayner; he wrote his first letter to her in his cell at the monastery Saint Wandrille, the setting for his reflections on monastic life in A Time to Keep Silence. His letters exhibit many of his most engaging characteristics: his zest for life, his unending curiosity, his lyrical descriptive powers, his love of language, his exuberance and his tendency to get into scrapes - particularly when drinking and, quite separately, driving. Here are plenty of extraordinary stories: the hunt for Byron's slippers in one of the remotest regions of Greece; an ignominious dismissal from Somerset Maugham's Villa Mauresque; hiding behind a bush to dub Dirk Bogarde into Greek during the shooting of Ill Met by Moonlight, the film based on the story of General Kreipe's abduction; his extensive travels. Some letters contain glimpses of the great and the good, while others are included purely for the joy of the jokes.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Cultural History, British & Irish History, Travel Writing, Diaries, Letters & Journals
- Download servers: MEGA, Torrent, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, OneDrive, Mediafire, Racaty, Uploaded. Compressed in ZIP, TBZ2, Z, RAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 33.64 USD
- Dimensions: 160x241x44mm
- Weight: 816g
- Printed by: John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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