A time of gifts : on foot to constantinople: from the hook of holland to the middle danube / Patrick Leigh Fermor.

By:

Fermor, Patrick Leigh [Author]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: xii, 367 pages ; 20cmISBN:

9780719566950

Subject(s):

Travel -biography , memoir

DDC classification:

914.0455 FER

Summary: 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

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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

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A time of gifts : on foot to constantinople: from the hook of holland to the middle danube / Patrick Leigh Fermor.