num_pages: 304
description: "Like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar", an eighteen-year-old boy set out one wet December day in 1933 to walk to Constantinople. This book covers his journey as fa as Hungary.
language: English
title: A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
titlecomplete: A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
genres: Travelogue, Biography, Adventure, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Travel, Germany, Walking, History
ratings_count: 8064
places: River Rhine, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Netherlands
series: Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Penguin Books