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Fermor, Patrick Leigh : The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

New York Review Books, New York, 2013

ISBN 9781590177549

Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 362 pp.

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh : The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

John Murray, London, 2013

ISBN 1848547528

In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him the better part of a year. Decades later, when he was well over fifty, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, two works now celebrated as among the most vivid, absorbing, delightful, and beautifully-written travel books of all time.The Broken Road is the long and avidly awaited account of the final leg of his youthful adventure that Leigh Fermor promised but was unable to finish before his death in 2011. Assembled from Leigh Fermor's manuscripts by his prize-winning biographer Artemis Cooper and the travel writer Colin Thubron, this is perhaps the most personal of all Leigh Fermor's books, catching up with young Paddy in the fall of 1934 and following him through Bulgaria and Romania to the coast of the Black Sea. Days and nights on the road, spectacular landscapes and uncanny cities, friendships lost and found, leading the high life in Bucharest or camping out with fishermen and shepherds: in the The Broken Road such incidents and escapades are described with all the linguistic bravura, odd and astonishing learning, and overflowing exuberance that Leigh Fermor is famous for, but also with a melancholy awareness of the passage of time, especially when he meditates on the scarred history of the Balkans or on his troubled relations with his father. The book ends, perfectly, with Paddy's diary from the winter of 1934, when he had reached Greece, the country he would fall in love with and fight for. Across the space of three quarters of century we can still hear the ringing voice of an irrepressible young man embarking on a life of adventure. 384p. Paper age toned. else as new. Illustr.: Edited Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh : The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

John Murray, London, 2014

ISBN 9781848549333

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 eighteen 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.362p.. Illustr.: Edited Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Trade Paperback

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FERMOR**, PATRICK LEIGH: : THE BROKEN ROAD: FROM THE IRON GATES TO MOUNT ATHOS

LONDON.JOHN MURRAY (PUBLISHERS),2013.

ISBN 9781848547520.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp.[Complete number line 3,so a 1st edn,3rd impression.] FINE-/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustration by Ed Kluz,illustrated dw/dj with capitalised b/w lettered part-title and capitalised white lettered sub-title,and author's capitalised black-lettered name; spine/ backstrip with thumbnail colour illustration detail repeated to its head and similarly coloured+lettered title and author name as front's and publisher's capitalised,white-lettered name to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with continuation of illustration and critics' b/w lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges though slightly aged/toned are clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight and clean – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,but an accidental,tiny fore-edge snick with crease to pp195/96 – else appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean/ unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,a grey+white striped headband,and immaculate abstract foliage and bramble red+white illustrated endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp,vii-xixpp+1-362pp [paginated] includes Contents + Maps list/table with b/w photograph of Fermor to its reverse,an Introduction by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper,8 chapters,Acknowledgements and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w illustrated title page,a dedication,and 3 b/w regional maps (from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube, The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates and From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos) between last page of Introduction and Chapter 1 page.                 Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and even internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation,for a book of its 10+ year-old age. It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite those,it really is still an exemplary example for its cleanliness and lack of other detracting faults.                                 Fermor died in 2011 before he was able to complete this,the intended final volume of two earlier books - 'A Time of Gifts' ( 1977 ) and 'Between the Woods and the Water' ( 1986 ) - were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy which were intended to cover his walking journey from The Hook of Holland to Constantinople.It completes his description of the walk from the Iron Gates in Romania,and then covers his diary of the weeks he spent on Mount Athos immediately afterwards.Curiously,he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk,but it predated the other two volumes.It remained unfinished but 'The Broken Road' now completes an extraordinary journey. Published posthumously,it has been edited by Fermor's literary executors; Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper. [In 2011,Patrick Leigh Fermor works featured in The Guardian's 'Greatest Travel Book' selection.]                    Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh : THE BROKEN ROAD From The Iron Gates to Mount Athos

John Murray, London, 2013

large 8vo. 362pp. Mint d.j. and no inscriptions, fading, wear or marks. [Number line 1]. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardback. Jacket: Fine

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