A Time of Gifts

£9.99

In 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Liegh Fermour's set out to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This book covers the first stage of that walk from the Hook of Holland, through Germany, during the first year of Hitler's Government, on to Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest, with a rail journey to Prague and back thrown in for good measure.
Winner of the 1978 W.H. Smith Literary Award
"More than just a super-travel-book ¿ it is a reminder that the English language is still a superb instrument in the hands of a writer who has a virtuoso skill with words, a robust aesthetic passion, an indomitable curiosity about people and places, and a rapturous historical imagination" - Philip Toynbee, Observer