{"product_id":"dashing-for-the-post-the-letters-of-patrick-leigh-fermor","title":"Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor","description":"\u003cp\u003eHandsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 A TIME TO KEEP SILENCE.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 Ill Met by Moonlight, the film based on the story of General Kreipe's abduction; his extensive travels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome letters contain glimpses of the great and the good, while others are included purely for the joy of the jokes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick Leigh Fermor, Adam Sisman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43661655081129,"sku":"9781473622463","price":16.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781473622463.jpg?v=1708225721","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/dashing-for-the-post-the-letters-of-patrick-leigh-fermor","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}