Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He was prominent behind the lines in the Cretan resistance in the Second World War, and widely seen as Britain’s greatest living travel writer, based on books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him “a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene”.
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