"A Time Of Gifts" 1977 LEIGH FERMOR, Patrick (SOLD)
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On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
LEIGH FERMOR, Patrick
[291] pp.
John Murray
1977
8 3/4" x 5 3/4"
Jacket design by John Craxton
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A Time of Gifts (1977) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published by John Murray when the author was 62, it is a memoir of the first part of Fermor's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933/34. The book has been hailed as a classic of travel writing; William Dalrymple called it a "sublime masterpiece".
A Time of Gifts, whose introduction is a letter to his wartime colleague Xan Fielding, recounts Leigh Fermor's journey as far as the Middle Danube.