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The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. ' ...Show more
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands by Patrick Leigh Fermor
31.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the West Indies by steamer, aeroplane an ...Show more
The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano, and, in time, she shares the story of her youth there in the early twentieth century. Set in the tropical luxury of the i ...Show more
The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
"Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to raise a genuine shiver--possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is a small timeless masterpiece."--Phoebe Lou Adams, The Atlantic An NYRB Classics Original Patrick Leigh ...Show more