![]() ![]() The trilogy inspired Nick Hunt to follow in Paddy’s footsteps. Only after his death were Artemis and Colin Thubron able to see The Broken Road into print. There was to have been a third volume, but for years Paddy struggled with it. In these books Baroque architecture and noble bloodlines abound, but adventure is at the heart of his writing. Years later he recorded much of the journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. ![]() Artemis Cooper, Paddy’s biographer, and Nick Hunt, author of Walking the Woods and the Water, join the Slightly Foxed team to explore the life and literary work of Patrick Leigh Fermor.Įquipped with a gift for languages, a love of Byron and a rucksack full of notebooks, in December 1933 Paddy set off on foot to follow the course of the Rhine and the Danube, walking hundreds of miles. ![]()
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