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Three Letters from the Andes - Patrick Leigh Fermor

Three Letters from the Andes

Buch | Softcover
128 Seiten
2005
John Murray Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7195-6685-1 (ISBN)
CHF 19,90 inkl. MwSt
The celebrated twentieth-century travel writer's remarkable journey through the high Andes of Peru.
In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa and finally back to Lima.

The expedition was led by a writer and poet and the party included a Swiss international skier and jeweller, a social anthropologist from Provence and a Nottinghamshire farming squire - all seasoned mountaineers. The other two participants - the author himself and a botany-loving duke - were complete novices. As the group travelled from Lima into increasingly remote parts of the country, Leigh Fermor captured their experiences in a series of letters to his wife.

Whether recounting the thrill of crossing a glacier, the rigours of campsite life under a blanket of snow, their lively encounters with locals or the strangely moving sight of a lone condor circling in the sky, the author vividly conveys the excitement of discovery and the intense uniqueness of the land.

After his famous walk across Europe - recounted in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water - Patrick Leigh Fermor lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania and fought in Greece and Crete - living disguised as a shepherd in the mountains for two years organising resistance activities. He was awarded the DSO and CBE, and a knighthood in the 2004 new Year Honours List.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.1.2005
Zusatzinfo map and one or two drawings
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 196 mm
Gewicht 110 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Südamerika
ISBN-10 0-7195-6685-1 / 0719566851
ISBN-13 978-0-7195-6685-1 / 9780719566851
Zustand Neuware
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