Fermor, Patrick Leigh:

A Time of Gifts.

On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

ISBN: 978-0-719-56695-0

Verlage: Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.

Veröffentlicht 18.07.2013

Seiten 304

Einband

Kartoniert Länge 198,0 mm Breite 128,0 mm Höhe 35,0 mm

Gewicht 273,0 gr

The great travel classic that was first published in 1977. Recounts a journey 50 years before, travelling from Holland to Constantinople on foot. In December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople in early 1935. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzene, with whom he lived – mostly in Rumania – 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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