FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.

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A Time of Gifts. First edition, first impression. This is the first book in Fermor's celebrated travel trilogy that recounts his walk from Holland to Constantinople from 1933 to 1934, an immediate bestseller and critical success which established him as "one of the greatest travel writers of the twentieth century" (ODNB).His account of travelling through Germany as the Nazis consolidated power, and the widespread public enthusiasm he saw, is one of the key eyewitness accounts of the country's transition.

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