A Time of Gifts
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Taste attributes: documentaryadventureslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticlinearglossybig & variedemotive & stirringall consuming questhuman spirit/resilience/survival
Boxlist takeA grounded, wide-ranging non-fiction book: emotional and heavy. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.4 / 5
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About This Book
The author presents a chronicle of his journey, at the age of 18, on foot across central Europe, through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire, up the Rhine, and down to the Danube, capturing an unrecoverable time in Europe before the devastation of World War II.
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- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 304
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- Open Library
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