Paperback edition of the bestselling biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, the war hero and acclaimed travel writer. Cooper draws on years of interviews and conversations with Paddy and his closest friends, and had complete access to his archives. Portrays a man of extraordinary gifts, a self-educated polymath, a lover of Greece and author of }A Time Of Gifts, Between The Woods & The Water{ and many other books. 'At last his biography has been detailed in full, in Artemis Cooper's tender and excellent book' Robert MacFarlane