Described by the BBC as “a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene” Patrick Leigh Fermor is the author of several NYRB Classics: A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, Mani, Roumeli, The Traveller’s Tree, and A Time to Keep Silence, which was just featured on NPR’s “You Must Read This.” In Tearing Haste: Letters between Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire is published by New York Review Books.
