2006, ISBN: 4ebd1f3472769f8666054e996c489658

[PU: Folio Society], TRAVEL EUROPE LITERATURE, London. 2006. Folio Society. 3rd Printing. Very Good in Hardcover and Slipcase. Illustrated by Daniel Whistler. 292 pages. hardcover. FROM T… Mehr…

[PU: Folio Society], TRAVEL EUROPE LITERATURE, London. 2006. Folio Society. 3rd Printing. Very Good in Hardcover and Slipcase. Illustrated by Daniel Whistler. 292 pages. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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 title comes from a poem by Louis MacNeice. 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. A second volume, Between the Woods and the Water (1986), begins with the author crossing the Mária ValEria bridge from Czechoslovakia into Hungary and ends when he reaches the Iron Gate, where the Danube formed the boundary between the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Romania. A planned third volume of Leigh Fermor's journey to its completion in Constantinople was never completed. In 2011 Leigh Fermor's publisher, John Murray announced that it would publish the final volume, drawing from his diary at the time and an early draft that he wrote in the 1960s; The Broken Road, edited by Artemis Cooper was published in September 2013. inventory #41401 Very Good in Hardcover and Slipcase<