FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube.
London: John Murray , 1978.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
First edition, second printing of the author’s masterpiece, which ranks among the greatest travel books of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, map. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John Craxton.
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Jan Morris called it "[n]othing short of a masterpiece." "Rightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language" (Independent). "[Patrick Leigh Fermor] stands beside Robert Byron as the finest travel writer of his generation" (Colin Thubron).
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube.
$100.00
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