A Time of Gifts. On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

Fermor, Patrick Leigh (Sir)

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Guild Publishing / Book Club Associates, London, 1987

0719533481 / 9780719533488

Série : Livre 1 sur 3 - Journey Across Europe

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First published by John Murray in 1977, this is a Book Club edition of 1987. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of fab bright jacket by John Craxton and spine, top corners slightly rubbed and bruised, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks almost unread. 291pp. Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (1915- 2011), also known as Paddy Fermor, was a British author, scholar and soldier who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War. At the age of 18, Paddy decided to walk the length of Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. He set off in December 1933, shortly after Hitler had come to power in Germany, with a few clothes, several letters of introduction, the Oxford Book of English Verse and a volume of Horace's Odes. He slept in barns and shepherds' huts, but also was invited by landed gentry and aristocracy into the country houses of Central Europe. He experienced hospitality in many monasteries along the way. He finally arrived in Constantinople in January 1935. Patrick Leigh Fermor was widely regarded as 'Britain's greatest living travel writer' during his lifetime, A BBC journalist once described him as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene.' During the war, working for SOE, he achieved lasting fame for his kidnapping, with Stanley Moss, of Nazi General Heinrich Kreipe on Crete.…

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Titre
A Time of Gifts. On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
Auteur
Fermor, Patrick Leigh (Sir)
Éditeur
Guild Publishing / Book Club Associates, London
Année de publication
1987
État de l'article
Near Fine
Jaquette
Near Fine
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0719533481
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780719533488
Illustrateur
Jacket by John Craxton
Édition
Book Club Edition
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Série
Livre 1 sur 3: Journey Across Europe

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