Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as *A Time of Gifts* (1977).
Works (16)

A Time of Gifts
1977

A Time to Keep Silence
1953

Between the Woods and the Water
1986

Mani
1958

The Broken Road

The Violins of Saint-Jacques
1953

Dashing for the post

Three Letters from the Andes

Abducting a General

Patrick Leigh Fermor

In Tearing Haste

Roumeli
2004

The Traveller's Tree
1950

Words of Mercury
October 13, 2003

The seven deadly sins

The Seven Deadly Sins