EAN: 9781590171653

A TIME OF GIFTS - PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR TASCHENBUCH

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. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence 
Leigh Fermor's book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war
is still ahead  as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed-through the Lowlands to
Mitteleuropa  to Teutonic and Slav heartlands  through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman
Empire  up the Rhine  and down to the Danube.At once a memoir of coming-of-age  an account of a
journey  and a dazzling exposition of the English language  A Time of Gifts is also a portrait
of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.

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