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Description du livre Softcover. Etat : new. First Edition Thus. Product DescriptionThis beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever writtenAt the age of eighteen Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journeyto walk to Constantinople A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence Leigh Fermors book explores a remarkable moment in time Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changedthrough 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 DanubeAt once a memoir of comingofage an account of a journey and a dazzling exposition of the English language A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to comeReviewThis is a glorious feast the account of a walk in 1934 from the Hook of Holland to what was then Constantinople The 18yearold Fermor began by sleeping in barns but after meeting some landowners early on got occasional introductions to castles So he experienced life from both sides and with all the senses absorbing everything flora and fauna art and architecture geography clothing music foods religions languages Writing the book decades after the fact in a baroque style that is always rigorous never flowery he was able to inject historical depth while still retaining the feeling of boyish enthusiasm and boundless curiosity This is the first of a still uncompleted trilogy the second volume Between the Woods and the Water takes him through Hungary and Romania together they capture better than any books I know the remedial intoxicating joy of travel Thomas Swick South Florida SunSentinelRecovers the innocence and the excitement of youth when everything was possible and the world seemed luminescent with promise Even more magicalthrough Hungary its lost province of Transylvania and into Romania sampling the tail end of a languid urbane and anglophile way of life that would soon be swept away forever Jeremy Lewis Literary ReviewA book so good you resent finishing it Norman StoneThe greatest of living travel writersan amazingly complex and subtle evocation of a place that is no more Jan MorrisIn these two volumes of extraordinary lyrical beauty and discursive staggering erudition Leigh Fermor recounted his first great excursion Theyre partially about an older authors encounter with his young self but theyre mostly an evocation of a lost Mitteleuropa of wild horses and dark forests of ancient synagogues and vivacious Jewish coffeehouses of Hussars and Uhlans and of highspirited and deeply eccentric patricians with vast libraries such as the Transylvanian count who was a famous entomologist specializing in Far Eastern moths and who spoke perfect English though with a heavy Scottish accent thanks to his Highland nanny These books amply display Leigh Fermors keen eye and preternatural ear for languages but what sets them apart besides the utterly engaging persona of their narrator is his historical imagination and intricate sense of historical linkageFew writers are as alive to the persistence of the past hes ever alert to the historical forces that account for the shifts in custom language architecture and costume that he discerns and Ive read none who are so sensitive to the layers of invasion that define the part of Europe he depicts here The unusual vantage point of these books lends them great poignancy for we and the author know what the youthful Leigh Fermor cannot that the war will tear the scenery and shatter the buil. N° de réf. du vendeur BKZN9781590171653
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journeyto walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermors book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changedthrough 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. At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come. Originally published: London: J. Murray, c1977. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781590171653
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