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The broken road, from the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, Patrick Leigh Fermor ; edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper

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The broken road, from the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, Patrick Leigh Fermor ; edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper

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eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

The broken road

Oclc number

852457622

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Patrick Leigh Fermor ; edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper

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New York Review Books classics

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from the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

Summary

"In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick ('Paddy') 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 ... 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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper -- From the iron gates -- A hanging glass box -- Over the Great Balkan -- To the Danube -- The Wallachian plain -- Bucharest -- To Varna -- Dancing by the Black Sea -- Constantinople -- Mount Athos

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