{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "Dashing for the Post",
  "subtitle": null,
  "slug": "dashing-for-the-post",
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-leigh-fermor/dashing-for-the-post",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-leigh-fermor/dashing-for-the-post.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-leigh-fermor/dashing-for-the-post.md",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Patrick Leigh Fermor",
      "slug": "patrick-leigh-fermor",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-leigh-fermor"
    },
    {
      "name": "Adam Sisman",
      "slug": "adam-sisman",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-sisman"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en_GB",
  "original_title": null,
  "original_language": null,
  "first_published": "2016-10-06",
  "genres": [],
  "series": [],
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/john-murray/patrick-leigh-fermor/dashing-for-the-post_978-14-7362-249-4.jpg?v=2026-05-15%2022%3A16%3A43",
  "description": "A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy's twenty-fifth birthday, the last when he was ninety-four. His correspondents include Deborah Devonshire, Ann Fleming, Nancy Mitford, Lawrence Durrell, Diana Cooper and his lifelong companion, Joan Rayner; he wrote his first letter to her in his cell at the monastery Saint Wandrille, the setting for his reflections on monastic life in A Time to Keep Silence. His letters exhibit many of his most engaging characteristics: his zest for life, his unending curiosity, his lyrical descriptive powers, his love of language, his exuberance and his tendency to get into scrapes - particularly when drinking and, quite separately, driving. Here are plenty of extraordinary stories: the hunt for Byron's slippers in one of the remotest regions of Greece; an ignominious dismissal from Somerset Maugham's Villa Mauresque; hiding behind a bush to dub Dirk Bogarde into Greek during the shooting of Ill Met by Moonlight, the film based on the story of General Kreipe's abduction; his extensive travels. Some letters contain glimpses of the great and the good, while others are included purely for the joy of the jokes.",
  "editions": [
    {
      "title": "Dashing for the Post",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-leigh-fermor/dashing-for-the-post/9781473622494",
      "publisher": "john_murray",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "isbn": "978-14-7362-249-4",
      "pages": null,
      "published": "2017-06-15",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/john-murray/patrick-leigh-fermor/dashing-for-the-post_978-14-7362-249-4.jpg?v=2026-05-15%2022%3A16%3A43"
    },
    {
      "title": "Dashing for the Post",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-leigh-fermor/dashing-for-the-post/9781473622487",
      "publisher": "john_murray",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "ebook",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "isbn": "978-14-7362-248-7",
      "pages": null,
      "published": "2016-10-06",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/john-murray/patrick-leigh-fermor/dashing-for-the-post_978-14-7362-248-7.jpg?v=2026-05-15%2022%3A16%3A40"
    }
  ],
  "other_languages": [],
  "characters": [],
  "chapters": []
}