The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (NYRB

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (NYRB Classics)

In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick (â€œPaddyâ€) Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him almost a year. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, two books now celebrated as among the most vivid, absorbing, and beautifully written travel books of all time.

The Broken Road is the long-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 Fermorâ€™s manuscripts by his prizewinning biographer Artemis Cooper and the travel writer Colin Thubron, this is perhaps the most personal of all Leigh Fermorâ€™s books, catching up with young Paddy in the fall of 1934 and following him through Bulgaria and Romania to the coast of the Black Sea. Days and nights on the road, spectacular landscapes and uncanny cities, friendships lost and found, leading the high life in Bucharest or camping out with fishermen and shepherdsâ€“in the The Broken Road such incidents and escapades are described with all the linguistic bravura, odd and astonishing learning, and overflowing exuberance that Leigh Fermor is famous for, but also with a melancholy awareness of the passage of time, especially when he meditates on the scarred history of the Balkans or on his troubled relations with his father. The book ends, perfectly, with Paddyâ€™s arrival in Greece, the country he would fall in love with and fight for. Throughout it we can still hear the ringing voice of an irrepressible young man embarking on a life of adventure.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer New York Review Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-03-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590177549

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	New York Review Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-03-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590177549

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (NYRB Classics)

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