The Broken Road

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The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of 18 from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III?' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remains unfinished but The Broken Road - edited and introduced by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper - completes an extraordinary journey.

©2013 The estate of Patrick Leigh Fermor (P)2014 John Murray Press

Die Zeit der Gaben

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"Verlasse, o Jüngling, dein Heim und brich auf zu fremden Ufern..." Mit einem Gefühl wie Odysseus und diesen Satz von Petronius als Leitspruch machte sich im Dezember 1933 der Autor auf einen Weg zu Fuss durch Europa. Von London aus setzt der 18jährige über nach Hoek van Holland und beginnt dort diese Reise mit dem Ziel Konstantinopel. In "Die Zeit der Gaben" beschreibt Fermor Jahrzehnte später mit vielen kulturgeschichtlichen Exkursionen den ersten Teil dieser Reise von Holland über Belgien und Deutschland, Österreich, Tschechien, Slowakei bis in die ungarische Bischofsstadt Esztergom. Er bringt uns in seiner eindrucksvollen poetischen Sprache einem Europa näher, das wenige Jahre später in Schutt und Asche versinkt. Fermor begegnet auf seiner Reise Menschen aus allen Gesellschaftsschichten, schläft in Scheunen und Schlössern ohne die Feindlichkeit Fremden gegenüber zu erfahren, an die der heutige Hörer zuweilen erinnert wird, wenn er sich mit dem Autor auf diese Reise begibt. Die Übersetzung aus dem Englischen bewirkte Manfred Allié. Unter der bewährten Regie von Franz Wassmer nimmt uns Thomas Sarbacher mit auf diese beeindruckende Reise. In deiner Audible-Bibliothek findest du für dieses Hörerlebnis eine PDF-Datei mit zusätzlichem Material.

©2011 Dörlemann (P)2017 Hörkultur Verlag AG

Between the Woods and the Water

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Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, Silver PEN Award, 1987.The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania.The trip was an exploration of a continent which was already showing signs of the holocaust which was to come. Although frequently praised for his lyrical writing, Fermor's account also provides a coherent understanding of the dramatic events then unfolding in Middle Europe. But the delight remains in travelling with him in his picaresque journey past remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges.

©1986 The estate of Patrick Leigh Fermor (P)2014 John Murray Press

A Time of Gifts

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In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the listener with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events that were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable burgomasters who welcomed him, and that world's grandeurs and courtesies. His powers of recollection have astonishing sweep and verve, and the scope is majestic.

©1977 The estate of Patrick Leigh Fermor (P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton