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==Works== '''Books''' *''[[iarchive:travellerstree00patr|The Traveller's Tree]]''. 2001. (1950) *{{Cite book |title=The Violins of Saint-Jacques |year=1977 |url=https://archive.org/details/violinsofsaintja00ferm}} (1953) *''[[A Time to Keep Silence]]'' (1957), with photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell.<ref>James Campbell, [https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jun/10/patrick-leigh-fermor-obituary "Patrick Leigh Fermor obituary"], ''[[The Guardian]]'' (10 June 2011)</ref> This was an early product of the [[Queen Anne Press]], a company managed by Leigh Fermor's friend [[Ian Fleming]]. In it he describes his experiences in several monasteries, and the profound effect the time spent there had on him. *''[[Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese]]'' (1958) *''Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece'' (1966) *''[[A Time of Gifts|A Time of Gifts β On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube]]'' (1977, published by John Murray) *''[[Between the Woods and the Water|Between the Woods and the Water β On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates]]'' (1986) *''Three Letters from the Andes'' (1991) *''Words of Mercury'' (2003), edited by [[Artemis Cooper]] *''In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor'' (2008), edited by Charlotte Mosley. ([[Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire]], the youngest of the six [[Mitford sisters]], was the wife of the 11th Duke of Devonshire). *''[[The Broken Road (travel book)|The Broken Road β Travels from Bulgaria to Mount Athos]]'' (2013), edited by Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron from PLF's unfinished manuscript of the third volume of his account of his walk across Europe in the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/15/broken-road-leigh-fermor-review |title=The Broken Road β A Review |author=Sattin, Anthony |date=15 September 2013 |access-date=22 August 2016 |newspaper=The Observer}}</ref> *''Abducting A General β The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete'' (2014) *''Dashing for the Post: the Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor'' (2017), edited by Adam Sisman. Published the US as ''Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters'' *''More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor'' (2018), edited by Adam Sisman '''Translations''' *''No Innocent Abroad'' (published in United States as ''Forever Ulysses'') by C. P. Rodocanachi (1938) *''Julie de Carneilhan and Chance Acquaintances'' by [[Colette]] (1952) *''[[The Cretan Runner|The Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation]]'' by [[George Psychoundakis]] (1955) '''Screenplays''' *''[[The Roots of Heaven (film)|The Roots of Heaven]]'' (1958) adventure film, directed by [[John Huston]] '''Periodicals''' *"A Monastery", in ''[[Cornhill Magazine|The Cornhill Magazine]]'', London, no. 979, Summer 1949. *"From [[Solesmes Abbey|Solesmes]] to [[La Trappe Abbey|La Grande Trappe]]", in ''The Cornhill Magazine'',<ref>edited by [[Peter Quennell]]</ref> John Murray, London, no. 982, Spring 1950. *"Voodoo Rites in Haiti", in ''World Review'', London, October 1950. *"The Rock-Monasteries of [[Cappadocia]]", in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', London, no. 986, Spring 1951. *"The Monasteries of the Air", in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', London, no. 987, Summer 1951. *"The Entrance to Hades",<ref>about the Mani</ref> in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', London, no. 1011, Spring 1957. *"Swish! Swish! Swish!",<ref>[https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n15/patrick-leigh-fermor/swish!-swish!-swish on the Mani olive harvest].</ref> originally written for the Greek edition of ''[[Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese]]'', first appeared in ''The [[London Review of Books]]'', London, Vol. 43, No. 15, 29 July 2021. '''Forewords and introductions''' * Introduction to ''Into Colditz'' by Lt Colonel Miles Reid (Michael Russell Publishing Ltd, Wilton, 1983). The story of Reid's captivity in [[Colditz]] and eventual escape by faking illness so as to qualify for repatriation. Reid had served with Leigh Fermor in Greece and was captured there trying to defend the [[Corinth Canal]] bridge in 1941. * Foreword of ''Albanian Assignment'' by Colonel [[David Smiley]] (Chatto & Windus, London, 1984). The story of SOE in Albania, by a brother in arms of Leigh Fermor, who was later an [[MI6]] agent.
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