He is English, after all
Neal Ascherson: Unboreable Leigh Fermor, 7 November 2013
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
John Murray, 362 pp., £25, September 2013,978 1 84854 752 0 Show More
by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
John Murray, 362 pp., £25, September 2013,
“... of the Balkans’. He is in a Bulgarian café as it explodes with joy at the news that King Alexander of Yugoslavia has been assassinated, and in Ruse entertains his landlady by singing a Marlene Dietrich song backwards (he is English, after all). And one night, south of Varna, he falls off the rocks into the sea and recovers in a cave full of ... ”