LEIGH FERMOR, Patrick.
A Journey To Peru: July 27th-Sept 2nd 1971 (Three Letters From the Andes).
Kardamyli, Greece: Privately Printed , 1972.
$2,000.00
Out of Stock
Item Number: RRB-3542
+$450
Manuscript Of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Three Letters From The Andes, With His Hand Corrections And Inscription
An 88 page manuscript of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s book "Three Letters From the Andes" with Leigh Fermor’s hand corrections throughout. Privately printed in Kardamyli in 1972. Inscribed by the author, "For Heyward, with every greeting from PLF Kardamyli 28.7.88." The recipient was architect Heyward Cutting, an Etonian and later Harvard graduate. who corresponded with Leigh Fermor for many years. In very good condition with a small rust mark to the front and rear page from a paper clip. Unique.
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. "Patrick Leigh Fermor is an exquisite among travel writers ... Having a polished sense of poetry and a bright sense of humour, he outshines Lawrence ... This is a delicious book" (Sunday Telegraph).
A Journey To Peru: July 27th-Sept 2nd 1971 (Three Letters From the Andes).
$2,000.00
Out of Stock
Other Books by this Author
