A Time of Gifts
A John Murray Journey
$39.92
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
12 October 2021
Summary
INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS
’[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic’ ROBERT MACFARLANE
‘The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.’
In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his ‘great trudge’, a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529369526 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529369525 |
| Author: | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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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’ * Robert Macfarlane, Waitrose Weekend *
About The Author
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe at the age of eighteen, reaching Constantinople in early 1935. He travelled on into Greece, where he met Balasha Cantacuzene, with whom he lived until the outbreak of war. Serving in occupied Crete, he led a successful operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO. After the war he began writing, and travelled extensively round Greece with Joan Eyres Monsell whom he later married. Towards the end of his life he wrote the first two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, unfinished at the time of his death in 2011, which has since been edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road.
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