FERMOR, Patrick Leigh

[139] pp.

St. Martin’s Press

1977

8 3/4″ x 5 3/4″

Decorations by Robin Ironside

Fine/ Fine

Leigh Fermor’s best-selling travel book, considered a classics of the genre, and like that first book, set in the Caribbean. The romantic tale of an enigmatic Frenchwoman’s youth amongst the descendants of slaves and a fading French aristocracy. Basis for Malcolm Williamson’s three-act opera, with libretto by William Chappell.