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040 _aKenya National Library Service
082 _a914.0455 FER
100 _aFermor, Patrick Leigh
_eAuthor
245 _aA time of gifts :
_bon foot to constantinople: from the hook of holland to the middle danube /
_cPatrick Leigh Fermor.
300 _axii, 367 pages ;
_c20cm.
520 _aIn 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
650 _aTravel -biography , memoir.
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