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A time of gifts : on foot to Constantinople : from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube / Patrick Leigh Fermor ; introduction by Jan Morris.

by Fermor, Patrick Leigh.

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New York : New York Review Books, c2005.

Fermor, Patrick Leigh.

Europe -- Description and travel.

Europe, Central -- Description and travel.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2005011625-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f1h8-aa

1590171659 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9781590171653 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

New York Review Books classics.

xi, 321 p. ; 21 cm.

Introduction -- Introductory letter to Xan Fielding -- The low countries -- Up the Rhine -- Into high Germany -- Winterreise -- The Danube: seasons and castles -- The Danube: approach to a Kaiserstadt -- Vienna -- The edge of the Slav world -- Prague under snow -- Slovakia: a step forward at last -- The marches of Hungary.

The author presents a chronicle of his journey, at the age of 18, on foot across central Europe, through 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, capturing an unrecoverable time in Europe before the devastation of World War II.

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