A Time of Gifts. On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube.

£275 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Fermor undertook this trip at the age of eighteen after his disastrous school career (he was expelled) and a period of precocious dissipation. He intended to live “like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar”, sleeping in work-houses, monasteries and barns, but he contrived to intersperse the hardships with leisurely sojourns in castles. A very good copy, contents clean, jacket slightly edge worn with minor chipping at head of spine, a few small areas of faint browning staining to rear panel.

• Binding: Hardcover

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