The Broken Road
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The final instalment of Patrick Leigh Fermor's legendary journey across Europe culminates in this long-awaited account of his travels through Bulgaria, Romania and Greece. Following on from his classic works, this volume completes the extraordinary expedition that began when the eighteen-year-old author set out on foot from the Hook of Holland in 1933.
Reconstructed from notebooks and manuscripts, the narrative captures Fermor's vivid encounters with a vanished world on the eve of war. From Bulgarian monasteries to Romanian aristocrats, and finally arriving in Greece, his sharp eye for landscape, architecture and human character shines throughout. Though unfinished at his death, the book stands as a fitting conclusion to one of travel literature's greatest trilogies, offering readers a final glimpse of Fermor's unmatched prose and insatiable curiosity about the people and places of a disappearing Europe.
