Книга: A Time of Gifts (Fermor Patrick Leigh); John Murray, 2021

'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.'

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, which took him through the Low Countries, up the Rhine, through Germany, down the Danube, through Austria and Czechoslovakia, and as far as Hungary.

Alone, carrying only a rucksack and with a small allowance of only a pound a week, Fermor had planned to sleep rough - to live 'like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar' - but a chance introduction in Bavaria led to comfortable stays in castles, and provided a glimpse of the old Europe of princes and peasants.

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

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781529369526
Автор(ы)	Fermor Patrick Leigh
Вес	0.28
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2021
Жанр	книги о путешествиях
Издатель	John Murray
Издательство	John Murray
Кол-во страниц	368
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	368
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая