Broken Road (Fermor - paperback)

Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor

ISBN: 9781590177792

Binding: paperback

Section: Essays

Series: Travel Across Europe #3

In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople. The Broken Road is the account of the final leg of his journey, following him through Bulgaria and Romania and ending in Greece. 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—such incidents and escapades are described with linguistic bravura and astonishing learning, but also with a melancholy awareness of the passage of time.