A time of gifts : on foot to constantinople: from the hook of holland to the middle danube /
Fermor, Patrick Leigh
A time of gifts : on foot to constantinople: from the hook of holland to the middle danube / Patrick Leigh Fermor. - xii, 367 pages ; 20cm.
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable
9780719566950
Travel -biography , memoir.
914.0455 FER
A time of gifts : on foot to constantinople: from the hook of holland to the middle danube / Patrick Leigh Fermor. - xii, 367 pages ; 20cm.
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable
9780719566950
Travel -biography , memoir.
914.0455 FER