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The Broken Road: Travels From Bulgaria To Mount Athos (2013)

by Patrick Leigh Fermor(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1848547528 (ISBN13: 9781848547520)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

John Murray Publishers Ltd

series

Trilogy

review 1: The third book describing his youthful journey across pre-war Europe. Fermor actually began this volume before the others but never completed it. The text is assembled from a manuscript and a surviving diary by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper. While the writing occasionally lacks the polish of the other two volumes, the story never lacks interest, and the text gives an insight into the author's methods of composition.
review 2: 'Paddy' Fermor walked from Rotterdam to Constantinople in 1933-1935. He wrote two books of a trilogy about that journey -- each stunning and wonderful. But the third book was never written, the "End" of the tale never told. Some of his friends and publishers found a partially completed manuscript of this third book and finished it for... more him. It reads very much like the first two books, a testament to the editors' skill at reconstruction from a draft. And they add entries from his Mt Athos journal (where Fermor went after Constantinople), which are just as great reading as the reconstruction of his walk. If you like traveling, if you like interesting writing, if you enjoy expanding your sense of history and the world, this book (and the first two as well) should move to the top of your reading list. I only wish Fermor had covered his days in Constantinople better. There's scant writing about that city in this book -- and it must have been an incredible time to be in Istanbul. It seems he fell in love there, and had some kind of painful and complex affair -- making it too hard to write or maybe just something he wanted to forget. Our loss. less

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