Patrick Leigh Fermor wrote travel books that combine walking journeys, history, languages and encounters with people across Europe. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water recount his youthful walk from the Hook of Holland towards Constantinople, moving through Germany, Austria, Hungary and the Balkans before the Second World War. Mani and Roumeli turn to Greece, mixing landscape, village life, folklore and historical digression. Fermor's prose is rich, learned and leisurely, often pausing a journey for architecture, etymology or local history. His work fits classic travel writing, walking memoir, European history and Greece writing. Read more Less
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