This author wrote an oft-excerpted passage in which he is conscripted into a rowdy game of bicycle polo while wandering the lawn of his host's mansion.
This author wrote an oft-excerpted passage in which he is conscripted into a rowdy game of bicycle polo while wandering the lawn of his host's mansion. In another book, this author described being stiffed by a family of circus performers when he went from door to door in Vienna sketching portraits for two shillings apiece. Artemis Cooper's biography of this author relates how he led (*) commando forces to kidnap Heinrich Kreipe, the leader of Nazi forces in occupied Crete. This author described his journey from the Mária Valéria bridge to the Iron Gate of the Danube in Between the Woods and the Water, picking up where his best-known book had left off. For 10 points, name this British travel writer, who chronicled his walk from Holland to Constantinople on foot in A Time of Gifts.
This author wrote an oft-excerpted passage in which he is conscripted into a rowdy game of bicycle polo while wandering the lawn of his host's mansion.
Patrick Leigh Fermor