{"product_id":"9781473622494-dashing-for-the-post","title":"Dashing for the Post","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor\u003cbr\u003eA revelatory collection of letters written by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA revelatory collection of letters written by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Road.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHandsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003eA Time to Keep Silence\u003c\/i\u003e. His 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\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003eIll Met by Moonlight\u003c\/i\u003e, the film based on the story of General Kreipe's abduction; his extensive travels. Some letters contain glimpses of the great and the good, while others are included purely for the joy of the jokes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450728362358,"sku":"9781473622494","price":12.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27156741.jpg?v=1760453881","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781473622494-dashing-for-the-post","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}