{"product_id":"dashing-for-the-post-the-letters-of-patrick-leigh-fermor","title":"Patrick Leigh Fermor: Dashing for the Post [2016] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA revelatory collection of letters written by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Road.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandsome, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eA Time to Keep Silence\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere 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 \u003ci\u003eIll Met by Moonlight\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fermor, Patrick Leigh \u0026 Sisman, Adam","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44568163418402,"sku":"9781473622463","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":51524559896915,"sku":"XE81473622463","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/fermor-patrick-leigh-sisman-adam-patrick-leigh-fermor-dashing-for-the-post-2016-hardback-1182611137.jpg?v=1754067695","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/dashing-for-the-post-the-letters-of-patrick-leigh-fermor","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}