What an end of an era! Paddy Leigh Fermor was well-known for his famous walk across Europe with Horace in his bag and his travel classics A time of gifts and Between the woods and the water. I wonder where my copies are and feel that I should pull them out.
Apart from that for me he was synonymous with the Mani and his eponymous book on the Mani and his Roumeli are both classic books on Greece. I didn't ever meet him but while I was in Athens in the 1970s he was certainly around at various times.
There are many obituaries and I have a couple of links here:
http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.politikh&id=283540 (in Greek)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/patrick-leigh-fermor-british-adventurer-writer-and-war-hero-dies-at-96/2011/06/10/AG5bfpQH_story.html (in English)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/8568395/Sir-Patrick-Leigh-Fermor.html
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