![]() The plan was to take little else but his knowledge of history, languages (including Greek), a book of Homer’s Odes, and a few letters of introduction. Described by The Guardian as “one of the most romantic books of the twentieth century,” A Time of Gifts is perhaps the best known installment, and tracks the initial leg of the journey made when Fermor was not yet eighteen. Published in 1977, the account comprises the first of what would be a three-volume memoir. Though, famously, Fermor didn’t actually write the book until decades later. A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople, by Patrick Leigh FermorĪ classic of the travel memoir genre, A Time of Gifts is Patrick Leigh Fermor’s account of his trek by foot from the Netherlands to Turkey in 1933-34. ![]()
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