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The Most Interesting Man in The World:
The Travel Writings of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Never heard of him? Fermor was once described by the BBC as a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene (and, they could have added, Lawrence of Arabia). In his obituary The New York Times said that Fermor “was as renowed for his feats of derring-do as for his opulent prose.” That prose would put him among the greatest travel writers of his era–or any other.