Fermor's biography by his friend Diana Cooper's daughter (Artemis) is an incredible, rollicking piece of work, like the man himself. http://www.nytimes.com/201

Fermor's biography by his friend Diana Cooper's daughter (Artemis) is an incredible, rollicking piece of work, like the man himself. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/books/review/patrick-leigh-fermor-by-artemis-cooper.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/books/review/patrick-leigh... After plowing through his wildly manic, romantic travels and escapades (including the most daring raid of WW II, when he kidnapped the commandant of the Nazi occupation in Crete mid-day), one feels very small and un-alive by comparison. What a life! (Though, ultimately you get the sense that he wasn't fulfilled by all the escapades.) Absolutely worth a read.