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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 'Enthralling and elegant prose ... There could be no better travelling companion than Patrick Leigh Fermor' -- Daily Mail 'Leigh 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 Telegraph 'His 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 Times 'He makes exotic and entertaining friends wherever he goes, has read everything, been everywhere, known everyone and writes like a dream' -- The Times
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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 )
'Enthralling and elegant prose ... There could be no better travelling companion than Patrick Leigh Fermor' (Daily Mail )
'Leigh 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 Telegraph )
'His 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 Times )
'He makes exotic and entertaining friends wherever he goes, has read everything, been everywhere, known everyone and writes like a dream' (The Times )
'Enthralling and elegant prose ... There could be no better travelling companion than Patrick Leigh Fermor' (Daily Mail )
'Leigh 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 Telegraph )
'His 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 Times )
'He makes exotic and entertaining friends wherever he goes, has read everything, been everywhere, known everyone and writes like a dream' (The Times )
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I became interested in Patrick Leigh Fermor after reading of his recent death. Unfortunately, the evocative, literary yet easy-to-read quality of his early work is entirely absent here and reads, like another reviewer says, as if they were dashed off in a hurry rather than meditated and worked upon.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Although written in 1971 in the last days of people who seem to find the time away from real life to partake of the 'Grand Tour', this book is an excellent account of travel in the Andes. Colourful descriptions of the Quecha and Aymara peoples with an eye for painting a picture of the mountains, the flora and the fauna. Read this book after you come back from the Inca trail and you will be transported back to your holiday !!!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
On the sad news of his recent death I can only concur with the obits calling him a Byronic figure. They say that he struggled over each line of every book but these letters appear light, informative and as though dashed off between evening drinks.
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