Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time of Gifts

Cover: 9781529369526 | A Time of Gifts | Patrick Leigh Fermor | Taschenbuch | 384 S. | 2021

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INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS

'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE

'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.'

In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote A Time of Gifts, the sparklingly original account of the first part of this youthful adventure, which took him through the Low Countries, up the Rhine, through Germany, down the Danube, through Austria and Czechoslovakia, and as far as Hungary.

Alone, carrying only a rucksack and with a small allowance of only a pound a week, Fermor had planned to sleep rough - to live 'like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar' - but a chance introduction in Bavaria led to comfortable stays in castles, and provided a glimpse of the old Europe of princes and peasants.

Hailed as a masterpiece, A Time of Gifts is in part a coming-of-age memoir, but it is also a rich and compelling portrait of a continent that - despite its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers and grand cities - was soon to be swept away by war, modernisation and profound social change.

'Not only is this journey one of physical adventure but of cultural awakening. Architecture, art, genealogy, quirks of history and language are all devoured -- and here passed on -- with a gusto uniquely his' COLIN THUBRON, SUNDAY TIMES

'One of the most romantic books of the twentieth century, Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of a long walk across Europe is also a literary treasure, a rich blend of action and observation' GUARDIAN

Über den Autor

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 and was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. 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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Reiseberichte
Region:	Europa
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel:	Die Zeit der Gaben. Zu Fuß nach Konstantinopel
Inhalt:	384 S.
ISBN-13:	9781529369526
ISBN-10:	1529369525
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Klappenbroschur
Autor:	Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Hersteller:	Hodder And Stoughton Ltd. John Murray Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Abbildungen:	frontispiece and map
Maße:	198 x 129 x 32 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick Leigh Fermor
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.11.2021
Gewicht:	0,276 kg

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