![]() ![]() He was awarded the DSO and CBE, and a knighthood in the 2004 New Year Honours List. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania and fought in Greece and Crete – living disguised as a shepherd in the mountains for two years organising resistance activities. This first volume takes us as far as Hungary. His powers of recollection have astonishing sweep and verve, and the scope is majestic.Īfter his walk across Europe, Patrick Leigh Fermor lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. A Time of Gifts sees patrick Leigh Fermor setting out at the age of eighteen, in 1933, on his epic journeyacross Europe from the Hook of holland to Consantinople. It is a book of compelling glimpses – not only of the events which 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. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot – from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul (or Constantinople, as he insisted on calling it). ![]()
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