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I'm just about to move from the wonderful A Time Of Gifts to I hope the equally good Between The Woods And Water. I've been slowed down by reading the rather good Great Tales From English History - I'm sad to say I know rather less than I should do about my country and I find it a simple but ...

Halfway through A Time Of Gifts, which is as wonderful as its reputation suggests. I have to say I found the Folio edition rather unappealing so picked up a simple paperback with a much more evocative cover (to me). I'm already debating whether to read Between The Woods And The Water straight ...

... long (and confusing), anyone wanting to participate should post a new topic on a single title, say, Heart of Darkness or A Time of Gifts and just add in the OP that the discussion is to be of a primarily literary sort and not dwell on aspects of the FS production As Book.

Hi, just de-lurking to say I am happy Patrick Leigh Fermor gets a thumbs up as I just bought A time of Gifts on a whim. More excited about picking it up now.

... But for me, the best travel writer (although he is so much more than a travel writer) is Patrick Leigh Fermor : his A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, the story of his walk across Europe in the years preceding the 2nd world war, are unsurpassed in their breadth and ...

... generally by period) Travel writings (like In Search of England or A Time of Gifts) Humour Poetry (anthologies and single poet collections by poet) How-to (from gardening to games to self-help) Genealogy Drama/Plays Books and ...

My wants are simple: Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor I have A Time of Gifts but the second in the series was out of the catalog before I could by it. Os.

... is Blood-Dark Track by Joseph O'Neill Other favorites off the top of my head: Two Lives by Vikram Seth A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray Borrowed Finery by Paula ...

He is one of my heroes too, great writer! I discovered him in Chania, Crete in 1989 (A Time of Gifts). At present he is reported working on volume 3 of his travel series, he even purchased a type-writer for that!, see William Dalrymple’s interview with him (a link in post 17 in http://www.l ...

... long and still be interesting and relevant! My favourite, all time favourite travel books are by Patrick Leigh Fermour A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He set out as a 17 year old in 1933 to walk to Constantinople (now Istanbul). The first book gets us to Hungary, the ...

... long and still be interesting and relevant! My favourite, all time favourite travel books are by Patrick Leigh Fermour A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He set out as a 17 year old in 1933 to walk to Constantinople (now Istanbul). The first book gets us to Hungary, the ...

I've not yet read A Time of Gifts; as belemnite said, I'm saving it for something to look forward to. So, I'm not familiar with Fermor's travel writing. But, I bought FS's In Search of England by H. V. Morton and just loved his ...

... I can't find the article online, but I'm sure I kept the article and will have a look to see exactly what it said. I loved A Time of Gifts so much; I'm saving Between the Woods and the Water for something to look forward to! At the moment I'm reading In Tearing Haste, a book of letters ...

Between the Woods and the Water has already been published in a livery to match A Time of Gifts - but it didn't seem to stay in print long and often goes for a premium price on Ebay.

... I suggested Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor because it must be time for the follow up to A Time of Gifts. My other suggestion was for John Le Carré Tinker, Tailor etc. I would snatch your arm off for a Folio edition of Call for the Dead.

... J. L. Carr Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant A High Wind in Jamaica and In Hazard by Richard Hughes A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

... the Children's Series I read it over Christmas -lovely) The Dud Avocado The Pilgrim Hawk Slaves of Solitude A Time of Gifts

... Massachusetts day 1. Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński 2. Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger 3. A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor 4. Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor 5. The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron 6. A Time to Keep ...

#70, abealy, I hope you loved Between the Woods and the Water as much as I did -- after I read A Time of Gifts, I was hooked on Patrick Leigh Fermor!

... look at the end of the Austro-Hungarian empire, with memorable characters. Patrick Lee Fermor was mentioned. His A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water are amazing and hard to describe. The story of the first two legs of his walk across Europe at the age of 20 or so, ...

A strong recommendation: Patrick Leigh Fermor's A time of gifts is a sort of travel book, written in 1977, describing how he set out to walk across Europe as a very young man in 1933. He spends quite a long time in both Munich and Vienna. What about Stefan Zweig for Vienna? Quite a lot to ...

... sounds like a remarkable linguist. In the FS volumes, Between the Woods and the Water is in short supply. Copies of A Time of Gifts are still available from FS but the former is out of print and commands a premium price on Ebay.

Two of my favourite books are A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. I would love to have the third in the set, but it wasn't published yet, as far as I know. The FS has published A Time of Gifts, but what about the second one? And do you think we'll ever read the third one?

... in particular pre-war (and also pre-WWI) Europe, which is perhaps one of the reasons I was so amazed and absorbed by A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. Edited to see if the touchstones will work!

... and went on to read the rest of the Deptford trilogy and by the Cornish trilogy. #6, Marensr, I was so amazed by A Time of Gifts that I went right on to read Between the Woods and the Water, which continues the journey. I also bought two of Patrick Leigh Fermor's other books (al ...

Limiting it tp this year I have read: The Dud Avocado, The Pilgrim Hawk, Sunflower, The Slaves of Solitude and A Time of Gifts, I am only part way through Names on the Land and The Go Between. Trying to pick favorites between those would be odd since they are so different. Sunflowe ...

... zelfs voor Engelsen niet zo bekende synoniemen van woorden. Drie boeken van hem zijn in het Nederlands vertaald: Mani, A time of gifts enBetween the woods and the water Van Townsend Warner vind ik zelf haar dagboeken en brieven het mooist, behoort tot de absolute top op dagboek- en ...

I see one of you mentioned Patrick Leigh Fermor, I recently read, A Time of Gifts and loved it. He had amazing travels and a lovely prose style. I am glad there are Anglophiles from many countries here.

... - the Quiller-Couch edition, of course - and, in real life, the 19 year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor walked across Europe -A Time of Gifts - declaiming the verse he'd learned at school. I wish I'd learned more - it's MUCH more difficult at my age. The things that have stuck are very British ...

... for the first time and I am currently in the midst of multiple books including Cranford, The Three Sisters and A Time of Gifts. I am pleased to note that knitting is mentioned in both Rebecca and Cranford

... glad I found this group because I'm a big NYRB fan, although not a collector per se. First discovered them when I bought A Time of Gifts and From the Woods to the Water after reading a profile of Patrick Leigh Fermor in "The New Yorker" and have been avidly reading them ever since (some ...

Way too many. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor Varieties of Exile and Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman The Case of Comrade Tulayev and Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge The Enchanted April ...

... I read The Slaves of Solitude and TheDud Avocado earlier this year -very different books. I am also almost done with A Time of Gifts The prose style of the last requires a slower pace but is worth it.

I don't know that "life changing" is the right descriptor for A Time of Gifts and its sequel Between the Woods and the Water (by Fermor), but they are two of my absolute favorite books, and when I first read them they truly changed the way I approach literature. For the better, of course!

Oh dear jfclark. I am almost finished with A Time of Gifts and I sent my mom A Time to Keep Silence He is a lovely lovely writer. I also notice they are publishing Tove Jansson's books for grown ups. I had to order my copies of The Summer Book and A Winter Book from England before they ...

#7 thekeepa, I adore Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts, an amazing book which is probably due for a reread. (Also its sequel, Between the Woods and the Water, and we Fermor fans are still hoping he will write the final volume which will take him all the way to Constantinople.) Hope ...

Just started Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts.

... have a stack of books that I am over half way done with and need to finish The Savage Detectives, Salem Chapel and A Time of Gifts. I need a summer vacation just to catch up on reading.

... hor. 3. Europe, a history, by Norman Davies - the one essential english language source on the history of Europe. 4. A Time of Gifts, by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Not really a heavyweight book in the sense of the matters it deals with (a walk on foot through half of Europe just prior to the ...

... bed that I started but haven't finshed. The next two books of Proust. The rest of The Late Hector Kipling and the rest of A Time of Gifts, The Coast of Utopia, The Secret Agent, Salem Chapel and Our Island History I am such a delinquent I start books then read others then go back and ...

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... Confidential by Amy Stewart Travel 1. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck 2. A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor 3. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 4. The Kingdom by the Sea by Paul Theroux 5. The Mapmaker's Wife by Robert Whitaker ...

A Time Of Gifts: On Foot To Constantinople: From The Hook Of Holland To The Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor

... ( as opposed to mere marketing). Along these lines I think of the artwork, including covers, in Patrick Fermor's books A Time Of Gifts and Between The Woods And The Water. Then there are books where the artwork competes with the book itself, e.g., The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam ...

... I wanted to keep (a profile of the author Patrick Leigh Fermor that introduced me to him and his wonderful books A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water). They said they would send one right out (free, because I'm subscriber, I suppose). When it didn't come after about ...

A Time Of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

... miscommunication between cultures, written as only such a wonderful writer as Fadiman can. Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water look at first glance as though they're a travelogue of a young man's trip by foot across Europe just before World War I ...

... characters facing their own personal issues and the Nigeria/Biafra war and its aftermath, and Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts and its sequel Between the Woods and the Water, the story of his journey, by foot, from the coast of Holland part of the way to Constantinople, at age 18, ...

... other fiction, but I would put some parts of that in the top five. (some title touchstones not loading) Nonfiction A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor Two Lives by Vikram Seth Bound for Canaan by Fergus Bo ...

I'm just starting Between the woods and the water and am finding it a bit slow going, compared to its predecessor. Time of Gifts was leisurely, but I got into the rhythm. Somehow the digressions seem more like, well, digressions, and less an integral part of the charm. Fermor's vocabulary ...

Paddy! I love his books, and A Time of Gifts is my favourite. He writes like an angel, but we don't all have angelic minds, so ... whenever I read him, I have to have a dictionary close by. I'd like to suggest an interesting exercise. Take one of his books, open it at random and see how ...

... Latitudes? His stuff is great! Baghdad Without a Map, although older, was so much fun to read. I've never heard of A Time of Gifts, but I am going to look it up right now.