Reading Group: A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor

A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor

In the winter of 1933 the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor, carrying virtually no money and very few possessions, embarked upon a year long walk from Rotterdam to Istanbul. Forty-four years later he began to recount this remarkable journey in a book which has come to be regarded as a classic of travel literature – notable both for its vivid evocation of a lost European world and the joyous way it recaptures the optimism of youth.