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A Time of Gifts dle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor About the book: Obsessed withIn 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote A Time of Gifts, the sparklingly original account of the first part of this youthful adventure. Alone, carrying only a rucksack and a small allowance, he travelled through the Low Countries, up the Rhine, through Germany, down the Danube, through Austria and Czechoslovakia, and as