Description
The first, astonishingly, almost completes his walk to Constaninople; it was written in the early 1960s, then set aside for correction and never finished. The second, his only surviving diary, describes the weeks he spent on Mount Athos immediatly afterwards, and was written on the spot. Leigh Fermor was working on these texts to within weeks of his death in June 2011. Now two of his literary executors, Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper, have edited and brought them together. Despite its disrupted history, the journey described in ‘The Broken Road’ is unmistakably Leigh Fermor, rich in descriptive observation and truffled iwth digressions and fantasies, while the diary reveals a very young writer who was to become one of the greatest prose stylists of the last centruy. First Edition. Hardcover. Published by John Murray 2013