Daniel Mendelsohn on ‘The Inspired Voyage of Patrick Leigh Fermor’ in The New York Review of Books

In the June 19, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books, Daniel Mendelsohn reviewed The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s account of the third and final leg of his journey across Europe by foot.

Mendelsohn writes, “When you put down The Broken Road you feel what [Leigh Fermor] himself felt on departing from Mount Athos…‘a great deal of regret.’”

Read the review in the June 19, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books or here.

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