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42: Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Slightly Foxed

Jul 15, 202259:44Arts

Paddy Leigh Fermor was just 18 when he set forth from the Hook of Holland, bound for the Golden Horn . . . Artemis Cooper, Paddy’s biographer, and Nick Hunt, author of Walking the Woods and the Water , join the Slightly...

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