by Patrick Leigh Fermor · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140049473
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«A Time of Gifts» is Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel book, published by Penguin in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Patrick Leigh Fermor recalls his walk across Europe at eighteen: he sets out from the Hook of Holland and advances along the Rhine and the Danube, sleeping in barns or castles, among the languages, landscapes and customs of a Europe approaching the Second World War. The account ends when he reaches Hungary.
The final destination of the journey was Constantinople; the work received the W. H. Smith Literary Award in 1978.
For readers of travel literature, memoirs and the interwar period in Europe.
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene".
