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- ↑ "Patrick Leigh Fermor's final volume will be published" The Guardian 20 December 2011
- ↑ "Patrick Leigh Fermor - The Broken Road - Hodder & Stoughton". Hodder.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
- ↑ Leigh Fermor, Patrick (2011). Between the Woods and the Water; On Foot to Constantinople: From the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates. New York Review Books. p. 59. ISBN 9781590175187.
A thick green manuscript book bought in Bratislava and used as a notebook and journal...left behind by mistake in a friend's house in Rumania...A few years ago, after decades of separation, I miraculously got it back.
- ↑ "Past Winners 1980-2003". Thomas Cook Publishing. 2004. Archived from the original on 31 August 2005.