ATHENS, Greece (AP) - British travel writer Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, who tramped across Europe in his teens and captured a German general in Nazi-occupied Crete during World War II, died ...

Patrick Leigh Fermor cut a dashing figure. Contemporaries likened him to Byron. He played Indiana Jones before Harrison Ford. As a young man, Leigh Fermor walked most of the length of Europe in a ...

Sometime in 1934, a little east of Vienna, an 18- or 19-year-old Englishman named Patrick Leigh Fermor said goodbye to a car-owning friend and resumed the transcontinental trek he had determined ...