War hero, self-made scholar and the greatest travel writer of his generation, Patrick Leigh Fermor lived on a remote peninsula in the Peloponnese until his death in 2011. From a humble house he built himself, now being restored by the Athens Benaki Museum, he explored Greece's romantic landscape—and forged a profound link to its premodern past.
By LAWRENCE OSBORNE
Photography KAMILO NOLLAS

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