{"product_id":"a-time-of-gifts-on-foot-to-constantinople-from-the-hook-of-holland-to-the-middle-danube","title":"A Time of Gifts On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisponibilità soggetta a conferma. Tempi di evasione dell'ordine comunicati al momento dell'acquisto.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic'\u003c\/b\u003e ROBERT MACFARLANE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote \u003ci\u003eA Time of Gifts,\u003c\/i\u003e the sparklingly original account of the first part of this youthful adventure, which took him through the Low Countries, up the Rhine, through Germany, down the Danube, through Austria and Czechoslovakia, and as far as Hungary.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Alone, carrying only a rucksack and with a small allowance of only a pound a week, Fermor had planned to sleep rough - to live 'like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar' - but a chance introduction in Bavaria led to comfortable stays in castles, and provided a glimpse of the old Europe of princes and peasants.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hailed as a masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eA Time of Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e is in part a coming-of-age memoir, but it is also a rich and compelling portrait of a continent that - despite its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers and grand cities - was soon to be swept away by war, modernisation and profound social change.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Not only is this journey one of physical adventure but of cultural awakening. Architecture, art, genealogy, quirks of history and language are all devoured -- and here passed on -- with a gusto uniquely his' COLIN THUBRON, \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'One of the most romantic books of the twentieth century, Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of a long walk across Europe is also a literary treasure, a rich blend of action and observation' \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Libreria Fiore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54039252402522,"sku":null,"price":18.52,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/7382\/1274\/files\/14116983482732.jpg?v=1776775854","url":"https:\/\/libreriafiore.it\/products\/a-time-of-gifts-on-foot-to-constantinople-from-the-hook-of-holland-to-the-middle-danube","provider":"Libreria Fiore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}