A Time of Gifts
On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
$40.88
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2021
Summary
‘Nothing short of a masterpiece’ JAN MORRIS
’[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic’ ROBERT MACFARLANE
‘Not only is this journey one of physical adventure but of cultural awakening. Architecture, art, genealogy, quirks of history and language are all devoured – and here passed on – with a gusto uniquely his’ COLIN THUBRON, Sunday Times
‘One of the most romantic books of the twentieth…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529369496 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529369495 |
| Author: | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 489g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 140mm x 38mm |
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[Fermor’s] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic of what we might call the ‘literature of the leg’
[Fermor’s] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic of what we might call the ‘literature of the leg’ * Robert Macfarlane, Waitrose Weekend *
About The Author
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe in 1933, reaching Constantinople in 1935. He then travelled to Greece, meeting Balasha Cantacuzene in Athens, with whom he lived until the war. During the war, he served in occupied Crete, leading an operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO. After the war, he began writing and travelled extensively around Greece with Joan Eyres Monsell, whom he later married. Towards the end of his life, he wrote A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, about his early trans-European journey. A third book, unfinished at his death in 2011, was edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road.
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