A Time of Gifts
Book 1 | Volume 3 | Inntravel Book Club
"Leigh Fermor in full flight is unreachable. He’s an author without equal. His writing is exuberant, playful, dense, light, learned, full of arcane references, never dull. He cavorts with words like he’s conducting a symphony.
I revisited the book recently. I actually listened to the audiobook and it hit home even harder. His paragraphs flowing like poetry.
A Time of Gifts is actually a first in a trilogy of books that Leigh Fermor wrote about his account of a massive walk across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. This volume takes us as far as Hungary, between the woods and the water and the broken road, to finish the story..."
