NYRB Classics: The Broken Road : From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (Paperback)

from JBreedlove

The third in PLF's trilogy of travel between the WW's. Written in recollection as an old man this last book finished his travels in Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. Lacking in description of Constatntinople but detailed in all else it is a look at another time and an even older time that was...

from bodachliath

This conclusion to the three part saga of Fermor's epic walk across Europe forms a fitting tribute to the late writer. Like the previous two parts (A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water) it is an entertaining mixture of picaresque adventure and erudite travelogue. Although the book ...

from PDCRead

It is not often that you encounter trilogies outside fiction, but this book is the final volume of Patrick Leigh Fermor's journey from the Hook of Holland to the exotic Constantinople. He begun the walk in 1933, just shy of his 18th birthday, but never actually got around to writing the first boo...

from vguy

All autobiography is really fiction, said somebody; perhaps it applies to travel writing too. This is a strange reading experience: ghost written in an almost literal sense. It's been edited together by Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron from his notes and drafts, which themselves were written many...

from nmele

The final, not quite finished volume of Fermor's trilogy about walking from the North Sea to Constantinople is full of his precise, vivid descriptions of birds, people and places and of his adventures on the roads of Balkan nations, primarily Bulgaria. Sadly, he never finished his account of the ...