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....

Mit einem Gefühl wie Odysseus machte sich im Dezember 1933 der Autor auf einen Weg zu Fuss durch Europa. In Hoek van Holland beginnt diese Reise mit dem Ziel Konstantinopel. In «Die Zeit der Gaben» beschreibt Fermor Jahrzehnte später mit...

This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering...