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A Time of Gifts - On Foot to Constantinople - From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: BK 1 | Reading Level: good
'A Time of Gifts' sees Patrick Leigh Fermor setting out in 1933, at the age of 18, on his epic journey across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This first volume takes the reader as far as Hungary.
Between the Woods and the Water - On foot to Constantinople - The middle Danube to the Iron Gates by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Reading Level: very good
The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we trave ...Show more
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy's twenty-fifth birthday, the last when h ...Show more
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor; Deborah Mitford; Charlotte Mosley (Editor); Deborah Devonshire
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but highl ...Show more
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. ' ...Show more
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