A Time of Gifts
Subtitle: On Foot to Constantinople - From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor ; introduction by Jan Morris.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Fermor, Patrick Leigh; Europe -- Description and travel; Europe, Central -- Description and travel
Description: The author presents a chronicle of his journey, at the age of 18, on foot across central Europe, 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, capturing an unrecoverable time in Europe before the devastation of World War II.
Notes: Originally published: London : J. Murray, c1977.
Includes index.