A Time of Gifts

1977

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Mentioned as a walking masterpiece with a polyglot's curiosity and a perambulator's love of people and places.

Suggested by

Ryan Floyd

, it tells the story of Patrick Lee Fermor's journey on foot through Europe as an 18-year-old.

Mentioned by

Brian Lapsa

as a book that showed him that classical education wasn't as remote as he thought.

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