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A time of gifts : on foot to Constantinople : from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
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The author presents a chronicle of his journey, at the age of 18, on foot across central Europe, through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains o...
The author presents a chronicle of his journey, at the age of 18, on foot across central Europe, through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire, up the Rhine, and down to the Danube, capturing an unrecoverable time in Europe before the devastation of World War II.
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- Creator
- Patrick Leigh Fermor ; introduction by Jan Morris
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- Language
- English
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- New York : New York Review Books, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xi, 321 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 1590171659, 9781590171653
- OCLC
- ocm60245404
- Originally published: London : J. Murray, ©1977.
- Includes index.
- Introduction -- Introductory letter to Xan Fielding -- The low countries -- Up the Rhine -- Into high Germany -- Winterreise -- The Danube: seasons and castles -- The Danube: approach to a Kaiserstadt -- Vienna -- The edge of the Slav world -- Prague under snow -- Slovakia: a step forward at last -- The marches of Hungary