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

Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Europe, 20th century, Autobiography: general, Prose: non-fiction, Travel & holiday

A JM Classics edition of the travel-writing masterpiece first published in 1977, by the inimitable Patrick Leigh Fermor

WITH A FOREWORD BY JAN MORRIS

'A treasure chest' Spectator

'A masterpiece' William Dalrymple, Financial Times

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. Alone, carrying only a rucksack and a small allowance, he travelled through the Low Countries, up the Rhine, through Germany, down the Danube, through Austria and Czechoslovakia, and as far as Hungary.

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

'Rightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language' Independent

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