This text continues Patrick Leigh Fermor's epic account of his journey aged 18 in 1933, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. Here, he travels down the Danube from Budapest, across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania.
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This text continues Patrick Leigh Fermor's epic account of his journey aged 18 in 1933, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. Here, he travels down the Danube from Budapest, across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book 1st UK edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Minor foxing to end pages. Minor wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good.
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Near Fine in Good jacket. 8vo. 'On Foot to Constantinople from The Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates. ' Front cover of dust jacket clean and colourful, very light shelfwear to corners and spine ends, some staining to rear cover, price clipped, book in near fine condition.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x1; Stated First American Edition, 1986. Hardcover and dust jacket. Wear to jacket with foxing. Light spotting to top page end. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0670811491. Hardcover with dustjacket, a beautiful example of the first American printing, both the book and dustjacket are in excellent condition with only one minor flaw: a small slightly lightened area on the pale blue rear panel of the dustjacket, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, 248 pages, illustrated with a double-page map printed on green paper, "With a borrowed rucksack and the lifeline of a pound of sterling a week, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off in 1933 from Amsterdam to walk to Constantinople-a trip that was to take him a year and a half, " a fine gift/collector's copy.
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Fine Condition. B0017J97EI. Fine 2006 1st print Folio Society volume, illustrated, with slipcase as issued, and Intro-beautifully produced. Fine, tight and unmarked throughout. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Exploration; ISBN/EAN: B0017J97EI. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 091847.
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John Gross wrote that it was not primarily for the "information it contains that his book deserves to be read (though he packs in a great deal), but for its sumptuous coloring, the acuteness of his responses, the loving precision with which he conjures up people and places" (The New York Times).
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First British edition of the author's second book in the author's trilogy that began with A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by John Craxton. A very sharp example. John Gross wrote that it was not primarily for the "information it contains that his book deserves to be read (though he packs in a great deal), but for its sumptuous coloring, the acuteness of his responses, the loving precision with which he conjures up people and places" (The New York Times).
The glimpses of the old society, about to yield to the modern age and disappear, are the precious gift of Leigh Fermor.
Nabokov says the good reader has: imagination, memory, a dictionary, and artistic sense. With PLF, the dictionary is especially necessary.