![]() ![]() With photographic portrait frontispiece, and a two-page map. With dust jacket designed by John Craxton. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, decoration to front cover in gilt. This copy retains the original dust jacket designed by John Craxton, "one of the leading exponents of Neo-Romanticism" (Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists). Part antiquarian pilgrimage through a Europe that was being changed irrevocably by National Socialism, part adolescent coming-of-age adventure, A Time of Gifts, relating the first part of Fermor's journey as far as Hungary, is undoubtedly the author's masterpiece. This is the first book in Fermor's celebrated travel trilogy that recounts his walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, an immediate bestseller and critical success which established him as "one of the greatest travel writers of the twentieth century" (ODNB). ![]()
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