Traveller’s Tales | James Campbell | Times Literary Supplement | 21st December 2016

Review of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Letters. “He was drawn to distinctiveness in all spheres: remote communities, disappearing languages, secret castes, national characteristics, blue blood, any hinterland where ‘the wireless is out of earshot. His latter-day journeys were less Chatwin than Chatsworth, but the twinkling labyrinth of Fermor’s erudition has kept its fascination, as has the character behind it. Not just a traveller, but a man on equal terms with mountain warriors”