W wieku 18 lat ruszył pieszo z Wielkiej Brytanii i doszedł aż do Konstantynopola. Został W Grecji. Tam mieszka. Ma teraz 94 lata.
Bohater wojenny, światowej klasy pisarz. Na blogu jemu poświęconym nazwany jest The Greatest Living Englishman. W innym Największym Zyjącym Pisarzem Podróznikiem. Fantastyczny opis spotkania z nim opisuje Kaplan w Śródzmiemnorskiej Zimie.
Inny opis z Telegraph: It is the most perfect writer's house imaginable, designed and partially built by Leigh Fermor himself in an old olive grove overlooking a secluded Mediterranean bay. It is easy to see why, despite growing visibly frailer, he would never want to leave. Buttressed by the old retaining walls of the olive terraces, the whitewashed rooms are cool and airy and lined with books; old copies of the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books lie scattered around on tables between Attic vases, Indian sculptures and bottles of local ouzo.
A study filled with reference books and old photographs lies across a shady courtyard. There are cicadas grinding in the cypresses, and a wonderful view of the peaks of the Taygetus falling down to the blue waters of the Aegean, which are so clear it is said that in some places you can still see the wrecks of Ottoman galleys lying on the seabed far below.
There is a warm smell of wild rosemary and cypress resin in the air; and from below comes the crash of the sea on the pebbles of the foreshore.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3559958/Patrick-Leigh-Fermor-The-man-who-walked.html
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