I am just going outside : Captain Oates--Antarctic tragedy

Sir Walter Raleigh

Abducting a general : the Kreipe Operation in Crete

Patrick Leigh Fermor : an adventure

Neverland -- The plan -- "Zu Fuss nach Konstantinopel" -- An enchanted summer -- Bulgaria to Mount Athos -- Balasha -- An intelligence officer -- Crete and General Carta -- Setting the trap -- The Hussar stunt -- The British Institute, Athens -- The Caribbean -- Writing The traveller's tree -- Travels in Greece -- Byron's slippers -- Cyprus -- In Africa and Italy -- A visit to Rumania -- A monastery built for two -- Shifts in perspective -- "For now the time of gifts is gone" -- A note on the Green diary and 'A youthful journey' ; Patrick Leigh Fermor's walk across Europe, 1933-5.