A Time of Gifts
- Author Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Narrator Crispin Redman
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 12 hours and 51 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: general.
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What to expect
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary.
It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable burgomasters who welcomed him, and that world's grandeurs and courtesies. His powers of recollection have astonishing sweep and verve, and the scope is majestic.
(P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton
It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable burgomasters who welcomed him, and that world's grandeurs and courtesies. His powers of recollection have astonishing sweep and verve, and the scope is majestic.
(P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton
Critics Review
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[Fermor’s] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic of what we might call the ‘literature of the leg’
Robert Macfarlane, Waitrose Weekend
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