A Time of Gifts
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
At eighteen in 1933, Leigh Fermor set out to walk from Holland to Constantinople; written forty years later, this is the first leg to Hungary. Perhaps the finest travel book in English.
Read it if…
you want prose at its richest and a vanished Europe.
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Skip it if…
you want plain style.
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Three things you will actually use
- Walk young.
- Memory enriches.
- Europe before the war.
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Read the chapters on the Rhine.
Our verdict
Leigh Fermor, part one.
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