The Broken Road - From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Verlag | Hodder & Stoughton |
Auflage | 2014 |
Seiten | 384 |
Format | 12,7 x 19,5 x 2,4 cm |
Gewicht | 260 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Patrick Leigh Fermor 3 |
ISBN-10 | 1848547544 |
EAN | 9781848547544 |
Bestell-Nr | 84854754UA |
The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor - hailed as the greatest travel writer of his generation.
Klappentext:
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. \'When are you going to finish Vol. III?\' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remains unfinished but The Broken Road - edited and introduced by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper - completes an extraordinary journey.
Rezension:
Nobody could do the job better than the book\'s editors. Colin Thubron is a travel writer of Leigh Fermor\'s calibre, Artemis Cooper is his masterly biographer . . . It contains wonderful passages of purest Leigh Fermor . . . Time and again he gives us vivid glimpses of encounters along the way - priests and peasants, the squalors of the back country, high life in Bucharest - and this virtuoso display is embedded as always in his astonishing range of learning . . . full of fun, kindness, easy learning, sophistication and innocence . . . a gently fitting conclusion to his tumultuous masterpiece Jan Morris Mail on Sunday