A time of gifts : on foot to Constantinople : from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube / Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Publication details: London : John Murray, 2004, c1977.Description: 291 p. : map ; 20 cmISBN:- 0719566959 (pbk.)
- 9780719566950 (pbk.)
- 914/.0455 22
- D923 .F47 2005
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 914 FER Vol. 1 | Available | 054815 |
Includes index.
"The great travel classic, first published in 1977 and recounting an epic journey of nearly 50 years before.
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 burgomasters who welcomed him, and that world's grandeurs and courtesies. His powers of recollection have astonishing sweep and verve, and the scope is majestic."
