The mountains, delaying sunrise and hastening dusk, must have halved again the short winter days. Fissures branched like forked lightning across damp masonry which the rusting iron clamps tried to hold together, and buttresses of brick shored up the perilously leaning walls.
Dank walls rose between towers that were topped with cones of moulting shingle. " stands beside Robert Byron as the finest travel writer of his generation" (Colin Thubron).“Often, half in a bay of the mountains and half on a headland, a small and nearly amphibian Schloss mouldered in the failing light among the geese and the elder-bushes and the apple trees.
Jan Morris called it "othing short of a masterpiece." "Rightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language" (Independent). A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Of the few association copies we have handled, this is easily one of the finest and lengthiest inscribed example.Īt the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journeyto walk to Constantinople. Association copy, inscribed by the author with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper with a drawing of clouds and birds, “To Petros Stathatos, from his old guest and horse-borrower at Modi forty three years ago Paddy LF, with gratitude and every kind wish * The adventures – travels – in this book are just a year earlier on the same journey.” The recipient, Peter Stathatos was a close friend of Leigh Fermor with whom he visited in Macedonia after Mount Athos, and whose horse he borrowed on his famous adventure at Orliako Bridge (Artemis Cooper, Patrick Leigh Fermor, pp. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, map. $5,000.00 Item Number: 141429įirst edition of the author’s masterpiece, which ranks among the greatest travel books of the twentieth century. A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube.įERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
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