A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinopl, Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Автор: Leigh Fermor Patrick
Название: Abducting a General
ISBN: 1444796607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781444796605
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Описание: A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as `a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene`.

Автор: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Название: Between the Woods and the Water
ISBN: 0719566967 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719566967
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Описание: The second great Patrick Leigh Fermor classic - and the sequel to A Time of Gifts - reissued in paperback with an Introduction by Jan Morris

Автор: Leigh Fermor, Patrick
Название: Between the Woods and the Water
ISBN: 1590171667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590171660
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts

The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933--to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day--proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed into more than one volume. Undertaken as the storms of war gathered, and providing a background for the events that were beginning to unfold in Central Europe, Leigh Fermor's still-unfinished account of his journey has established itself as a modern classic. Between the Woods and the Water, the second volume of a projected three, has garnered as many prizes as its celebrated predecessor, A Time of Gifts.

The opening of the book finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danube--at the very moment where his first volume left off. A detour to the luminous splendors of Prague is followed by a trip downriver to Budapest, passage on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain, and a crossing of the Romanian border into Transylvania. Remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges that are the haunt of bears, wolves, eagles, gypsies, and a variety of sects are all savored in the approach to the Iron Gates, the division between the Carpathian mountains and the Balkans, where, for now, the story ends.

Автор: Fermor Patrick Leigh
Название: The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
ISBN: 1590177797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590177792
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Описание: Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts the last leg of his epic walk across Europe as he makes his way through Bulgaria, Romania, and finally Greece.

In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick ("Paddy") Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, works now celebrated as among the most vivid, absorbing, and beautifully written travel books of all time.

The Broken Road is the account of the final leg of his journey, catching up with Paddy in the fall of 1934, following him through Bulgaria and Romania and ending in Greece. Days and nights on the road, spectacular landscapes and uncanny cities, friendships lost and found, leading the high life in Bucharest or camping out with fishermen and shepherds--such incidents and escapades are described with all the linguistic bravura and astonishing learning that Leigh Fermor is famous for, but also with a melancholy awareness of the passage of time. Throughout it we can hear the still-ringing voice of an irrepressible young man embarking on a life of adventure.

Автор: Artemis Cooper
Название: Patrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN: 0719565499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719565496
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: The authorized biography shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year, the National Book Awards and the Costa Biography Award