Biographies & Memoirs / Autobiography / A Time of gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

• Book Title: A Time of gifts
• Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
• ISBN: 0719533481
• Publisher: John Murray
• Year Published: 1979
• Our Price: £55.00 GBP ($90.75 USD)
• Description: John Murray 1979 , third printing of the first 1977 publication: hardcover in dust jacket: approx 5.5 x 9 inches tall: 291 pages including index: A gift from Stephen Roskill ( author of "Churchill and the Admirals", "HMS Warspite", "Navy at War 1945", "Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty") to his friends Patricia and Robert on July 3, 1980; with accompanying signed letter headed Frostlake Cottage, Malting Lane, Cambridge clipped to front endpaper. Synopsis: A travel autobiography inspired by a discussion in a cave in German occupied Crete in 1942. The volume includes details of the author's school career, and following embarkation( with £15 lent by school friend's father, army surplus clothing, and borrowed rucksack) to Holland in 1933; as he undertook an 18 month journey on foot to Constantinople. Patrick Leigh Fermor graphically describes his adventurous solo expedition across a continent already hinting at the coming conflict ( he planned to live ' like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar ') in chapters entitled: -- The Low Countries, Up the Rhine, Into High Germany, Winterreisee, 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. After his journey the author joined the Irish Guards, became Liaison officer in Albania, fought in Greece and Crete (returning to the island three times during the German occupation, living in the mountains disguised as a shepherd for more than two years while organising the resistance, and the capture and evacuation of the German Commander General Kreipe . Condition: edges of dust jacket slightly rubbed: slight staining from paper clip to upper front endpaper, frontispiece and title page: back flap of dust jacket slightly discoloured: Price corner removed: overall very clean and good
• Condition: Collectable- Very Good
• Dustcover: Yes
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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