Pard-like stubble
I can only imagine this refers to a patchy or spotted colour combination, as 'pard' means leopard or panther, or...
Chocolate-coloured ploughland
What deep, dark, friable soil this suggests!
'It was a geometrical interlock of chocolate-coloured ploughland with stripes of barley, wheat,...
Tongue-tied penguins
Having seen a number of documentaries on penguins, who seem anything but tongue-tied, this is a baffling idea. They seem...
Intimations of radiance
Listening time: 3 minutes.
An intricate description of the effect an ancient temple can work on the spirit...
Black-letter hortations
Leigh Fermor's descriptions of pre-war beer halls encompass the quaint, the sinister, the laughable and the grotesque, with first hints...
Tree reflecting banks
A river lined on both sides with tree-covered banks, reflected in the water and in each other.  As you follow...
Troy-bound villagers
In this triologism, Leigh Fermor effortlessly conveys the millennia-spanning history of an obscure village, implying that its inhabitants might be...
Light-hearted colours
What a delightful way to describe a palette of colours: light-hearted. What hues would it include? Sky blue, dancing fuchsia,...
Tree-tufted islands
Trees as tufts - trying to imagine how they would look. I imagine wind-blown short trees, dwarfed and compacted by...
Wolf-harbouring Carpathians
It seems Leigh Fermor's first great journey, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople on foot, was conjured from a...
Helot-haunted lowlands
Helots were the serfs of ancient Sparta, from the town of Laconia and only a notch above slaves.
They were...
Yataghan-wielding chieftains
At least when Leigh Fermor first travelled to Mani in the Peloponnese, its inhabitants had a fearsome reputation among Greeks,...
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