The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

Patrick Leigh Fermor; Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper [eds.]

ISBN 10: 1848547528 / ISBN 13: 9781848547520

Edité par John Murray, 2013

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Synopsis :

The final volume in the trilogy of travel writing which describes the walk Fermor undertook at the age of 18 from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. Following on from }A Time Of Gifts{ and }Between The Woods{, this is based on an early draft which he wrote before those 2 volumes. Fermor, who died in 2011, was an acclaimed travel writer and war hero, and this journey was undertaken in the 1930s. 'Patrick Leigh Fermor is a stylish, superb master of words' }The Times

À propos de l'auteur: In December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople in early 1935. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzene, with whom he lived - mostly in Rumania - until the outbreak of war. Serving in occupied Crete, he led a successful operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO. After the war he began writing, and travelled extensively round Greece with Joan Eyres Monsell whom he later married. Towards the end of his life he wrote the first two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, unfinished at the time of his death in 2011, which has since been edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to ...
Éditeur : John Murray
Date d'édition : 2013
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : As New
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