Physical description: xii, 367 p. ; 20 cm. Subject Fermor, Patrick Leigh 1915-2011 — Travel — Europe. Genre: Travel literature.
Trilogie Reeks
Deze epische reisverslag-trilogie volgt een jonge man op zijn avontuurlijke voettocht door Europa naar Constantinopel, gedreven door een diep verlangen naar ontdekking. Slapend in zowel nederige schuilplaatsen als in weelderige landhuizen, begint hij aan een reis vol onverwachte ontmoetingen en poëtische contemplatie. De serie combineert meesterlijk historische landschappen met persoonlijke reflecties en vangt een diep gevoel van 'Sehnsucht' – een verlangen naar het onbekende. Het is een levendige viering van jeugd, exploratie en de grenzeloze avontuurlijke geest.
Aanbevolen leesvolgorde
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor writes about walking from Hungary to the Balkans. The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933—to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day—proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed into more than one volume. Undertaken as the storms of war gathered, and providing a background for the events that were beginning to unfold in Central Europe, Leigh Fermor’s still-unfinished account of his journey has established itself as a modern classic. Between the Woods and the Water, the second volume of a projected three, has garnered as many prizes as its celebrated predecessor, A Time of Gifts. The opening of the book finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danube—at the very moment where his first volume left off. A detour to the luminous splendors of Prague is followed by a trip downriver to Budapest, passage on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain, and a crossing of the Romanian border into Transylvania. Remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges that are the haunt of bears, wolves, eagles, gypsies, and a variety of sects are all savored in the approach to the Iron Gates, the division between the Carpathian mountains and the Balkans, where, for now, the story ends.
The Broken Road. Die unterbrochene Reise, englische Ausgabe
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The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. 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.