Patrick Leigh Fermor: Books, Links and Websites

For afficionados of Patrick Leigh Fermor, this website has everything: patrickleighfermor.wordpress.com/…/welcome-to-the-patrick-leigh-ferm…

I never walked a step of Paddy’s Great Trudge from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople.
To me those books are about a timeless Europe suspended somewhere between memory and imagination,
and I didn’t want to mess up the pictures that his writing had created in my head.
But Nick Hunt did walk across Europe, with only Paddy’s books to guide him. I wish Paddy could have read Walking the Woods and the Water – it’s wonderful.
http://nickhuntscrutiny.com

If you have never watched the 1972 reunion of General Kreipe, his Cretan kidnappers and Paddy, here it is….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zlUhJwddFU#t=32

…and here is me talking about PLF at the Jaipur Literary Festival earlier this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EutBDe-8cHE&feature=youtu.be