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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Pbk.Ed. 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. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III ' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remains unfinished but The Broken Road - edited and introduced by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper - completes an extraordinary journey.362p. Edited Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, fourth impression with '4' on copyright page, a tribute to the book's popularity. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly bruised, very slight lean, not price clipped (£25.00), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 362pp. '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. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III?' was the cry from his fans, but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remained unfinished but 'The Broken Road', edited and introduced by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper, Leigh Fermor's literary executors, completes an extraordinary journey. Patrick Leigh Fermor was widely regarded as 'Britain's greatest living travel writer' during his lifetime, A BBC journalist once described him as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene.' During the war, working for SOE, he achieved lasting fame for his kidnapping, with Stanley Moss, of Nazi General Heinrich Kreipe on Crete. Jacket by Ed Kluz (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 3rd Printing. In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him the better part of a year. Decades later, when he was well over fifty, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, two works now celebrated as among the most vivid, absorbing, delightful, and beautifully-written travel books of all time.The Broken Road is the long and avidly awaited account of the final leg of his youthful adventure that Leigh Fermor promised but was unable to finish before his death in 2011. Assembled from Leigh Fermor's manuscripts by his prize-winning biographer Artemis Cooper and the travel writer Colin Thubron, this is perhaps the most personal of all Leigh Fermor's books, catching up with young Paddy in the fall of 1934 and following him through Bulgaria and Romania to the coast of the Black Sea. Days and nights on the road, spectacular landscapes and uncanny cities, friendships lost and found, leading the high life in Bucharest or camping out with fishermen and shepherds: in the The Broken Road such incidents and escapades are described with all the linguistic bravura, odd and astonishing learning, and overflowing exuberance that Leigh Fermor is famous for, but also with a melancholy awareness of the passage of time, especially when he meditates on the scarred history of the Balkans or on his troubled relations with his father. The book ends, perfectly, with Paddy's diary from the winter of 1934, when he had reached Greece, the country he would fall in love with and fight for. Across the space of three quarters of century we can still hear the ringing voice of an irrepressible young man embarking on a life of adventure. 384p. Paper age toned. else as new. Edited Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 363p. 4 maps (First edition has 2) 2013 3rd printing.

8vo. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. xix + [3] maps + 362 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Illustrated by photograph of author, and by 4 maps. Decorated by title page and head and tailpiece vignettes. Red patterned endpapers. The final part of the pre-war walk of Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) covers the section from the Iron Gates in Romania to Mount Athos in Greece. In the early 1930s the author had set out to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople and the journey as far as the Iron Gates was described in A Time of Gifts (1977) and Between the Woods and the Water (1986). The Broken Road brings together two texts left by Leigh Fermor; the first written in the 1960s describes his travels through Romania and Bulgaria to Northern Greece, the second is his only surviving diary, describing his stay in Mount Athos. The book is edited by his two literary executors. Third reprint of the first edition. TRAVEL EUROPE TRAVEL DIARIES EASTERN EUROPE 20TH CENTURY TRAVEL.…

1st edition. Hardcover. Fine black cloth with silver spine lettering, very clean pages and illustrated endpapers, in a very fine dustjacket, not price-clipped. This was the third and concluding volume recounting Leigh Fermor's remarkable journey on foot across Europe, aged only 18 in 1933, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. The book was compiled by his literary executors from texts the author was working on when he died, and is signed by one of them, Artemis Cooper. Superb copy.…