Such is the case with Leigh Fermor. While his books describe his journeys to far-flung areas of the world, they do more than catalogue places seen and people met. Leigh Fermor's works constitute a portrait of himself as a scholar, artist, traveler, and man. As a scholar, he possesses a vivid imagination that is preoccupied with capturing the people and events of the past. As an artist and writer, Leigh Fermor is lyrical, reveling in the love of words for their own sake. Using sensory details, he vividly re-creates moods, impressions, and experiences for his readers. As a traveler, Leigh Fermor undertakes a journey not with the end in view but in search of strange happenings along remote and unfamiliar paths. As a man, Leigh Fermor emerges from his works as an engaging personality: intellectually curious, sensitive, and confident, with a passion for scholarship, languages, literature, art, architecture, and geography and--most important for a traveler--a love of adventure and the unknown.
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