The Broken Road (Leigh Fermor book)
The Broken Road (2013) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published posthumously by John Murray, the book, edited by Artemis Cooper, narrates the final section of the author's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933/34.
The first book, A Time of Gifts, Leigh Fermor's journey as far as the Middle Danube. The second volume, Between the Woods and the Water (1986), begins with the author crossing the Mária Valéria bridge from Czechoslovakia into Hungary and ends when he reaches the Iron Gate, where the Danube formed the boundary between the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Romania. He never published the third volume, but in 2011 Leigh Fermor's publisher, John Murray announced that it would publish the final volume, drawing from his diary at the time and an early draft that he wrote in the 1960s;[1] it was published in September 2013.[citation needed]
The cover design is by Ed Kluz; John Craxton who designed the other volumes, had died in 2009.[2]
References
- ↑ "Patrick Leigh Fermor's final volume will be published" The Guardian 20 December 2011
- ↑ "The story of a cover: The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor", The Beagle blog of John Murray
