Authors: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Wallenstein, Albrecht von,
268
and nn
Wasserman, Jakob,
Christian Wahnschaffe
,
282n
Watts, Alan,
12
Wedgwood, Dame Veronica,
The Thirty Years' War
,
268n
Wellesz, Dr. Egon, Byzantine plainsong,
246
World War I,
43â5
,
51
; German attitude,
130
,
131
World War II, the author in Crete,
5
,
86
,
220â1
Worms,
65
THIS IS A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOK
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Copyright © 1977 by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Introduction copyright © 2005 by Jan Morris
All rights reserved.
First published in the United Kingdom by John Murray Ltd.
Cover painting: Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (detail), 1565; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/Bridgeman Art Library
Cover design: Katy Homans
The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:
Fermor, Patrick Leigh.
   A time of gifts / by Patrick Leigh Fermor ; introduction by Jan Morris.
p. cm. â (New York Review Books classics)
   Originally published: London : J. Murray, 1977.
   Includes index.
   ISBN 1-59017-165-9 (alk. paper)
  1. EuropeâDescription and travel. 2. Europe, CentralâDescription and travel.
3. Fermor, Patrick Leigh. I. Title. II. Series.
  D923.F47 2005
  914'.0455âdc22
2005011625
eISBN 978-1-59017-517-0
v1.0
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