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Title: A Time of Gifts
Subtitle: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Narrator: Crispin Redman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-01-14
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 73 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
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 listener with him as far as Hungary.
It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events that 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.
Critic Reviews:
"Nothing short of a masterpiece" (Jan Morris)
"Not only is the journey one of physical adventure but of cultural awakening. Architecture, art, genealogy, quirks of history and language are all devoured - and here passed on - with a gusto uniquely his" (Colin Thubron, Sunday Telegraph)
"Rightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language" (Independent)