Bücher von Imogen Grundon

Imogen Grundon is an archaeologist, surveyor and investigator of historic buildings. As an archaeologist, she worked in the Middle East, including four seasons at Tell el-Amarna. She also worked in Greece, at Mycenae, and in Crete, at Palaikastro and Knossos. She now investigates the history and development of historic buildings in Britain as well as continuing survey work abroad. She currently lives in Cambridge. For further information on her work and on the research surrounding this book, please visit http://www.imogengrundon.com . Patrick Leigh Fermor is one of Britain's best-loved writers. Beginning his travels at the age of seventeen, he walked from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933, a two-year journey he recounted in A Time of Gifts (1977) and Between the Woods and the Water (1986). He is currently working on the third volume. He was appointed as Greek liaison officer in 1940/1, and was dropped by parachute at night on the Lasithi Plain. He conceived and carried out one of the most daring exploits of the Second World War, the kidnap and smuggling to Egypt of the German General Kreipe. The story was recorded in the book Ill Met By Moonlight (1950), which was made into a film with Dirk Bogarde playing Patrick Leigh Fermor. After the war, he wrote books on his travels in Greece and elsewhere. A collection of his less well-known writings was recently published in Words of Mercury (2003).